angry - Story 5676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" Chloe’s classmate asked, their voice dripping with casual indifference. Chloe almost choked on her coffee. The casual tone, the blithe acceptance of the news, fueled a sudden, sharp sting in her chest.

She abruptly stood, knocking over her chair in the process. The loud crash drew unwanted attention, but she didn’t care. She stalked out of the coffee shop, the cool autumn air doing little to soothe the growing fire inside her. The sun felt wrong, the sky too blue.

Emotion: angry

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.05 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion angry. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 angry stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the angry emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the angry vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.354
`est`	0.354
`aggravated`	0.342
`🤬`	0.337
`恨`	0.323

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.424
`a`	-0.411
`la`	-0.341
`H`	-0.320
`L`	-0.296