angry - Story 5706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, his eyes burning. The error, glaring in its simplicity, was so obvious. How could he have missed it? His fingers twitched, itching to tear the document to shreds. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat of frustration.

“Hey, Mark,” his coworker, Carol, said, her voice sounding far too cheerful. “Is that a Camp Willow Creek keychain? My sister went there.”

He kept his gaze locked on the screen. The screen that held his undoing. “Yes,” he said, through a clenched jaw.

"I think she was there the same year as you," she continued, "The one with the infamous egg toss competition. Remember, it was so funny because..."

He cut her off. “I remember,” he said, his voice a harsh rasp. The egg toss competition. His team lost, and the stink was awful.

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