angry - Story 5693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting ended, but Sarah couldn’t bring herself to leave the room. The fluorescent lights hummed a monotonous tune, amplifying her unease. The words of congratulations to Mark for the promotion echoed in her ears, each syllable a jab.

She ran her hand through her hair, finding herself pacing. Her stomach felt like a knotted rope. All the extra hours, the weekend work, the sacrifices – for what?

Sarah glared at the window. The skyline looked distant, indifferent. Everything felt so very far away.

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