angry - Story 5698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory lunch was going on in the next room. Laughter, clinking glasses, and the usual faux camaraderie. The sounds filtered through the closed door, each one a tiny stab of irritation.

He felt a familiar pressure behind his eyes. He focused on his computer screen, pretending to work, but the words blurred. The world around him felt distorted. He got up and locked himself in the bathroom.

He stared at his reflection, a stranger, a ghost. He wanted this to not have happened.

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