angry - Story 5694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark whistled as he walked past her desk. A casual, almost jovial tune. He didn't even know. He hadn't seen how hard she had been working. She gripped her pen so hard the plastic creaked. She had been going through so much, and here he was, oblivious.

She tried to smile, to offer a polite “Congratulations,” but the words caught in her throat. Her throat felt tight, constricted.

She took a deep breath, fighting to keep her voice level. The air in the office suddenly felt thick, stifling. She was going to be sick.

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