angry - Story 5707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales figures were dismal. Utterly, irrevocably dismal. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and impatient. A vein pulsed in his forehead. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest.

"Is that a Camp Birchwood mug on your desk, Alex?" Brenda, his new colleague, asked.

He snapped his head up, his jaw clenched. “Yes,” he said, his voice tight.

"I went there! Remember the time..." she continued, her voice full of enthusiasm.

He cut her off. “I said, yes,” he repeated, the words a curt command. His gaze drifted to his mug. The memories of camp, and a lost ice-cream eating contest, and a girl, and a terrible week, came rushing back.

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