angry - Story 5709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer jammed. Again. He slammed his fist on the desk. He hated this piece of junk. Everything felt broken. Frustration simmered under his skin, a burning sensation that spread through his limbs.

"That's a Camp Sunnyside t-shirt, right?" Emily asked. She was leaning over his desk, pointing to the faded emblem.

He didn’t reply. He hated that camp. He was too awkward to make friends, and he missed the bus home.

“I went there too! I had such a good time. What was your favorite activity?" She continued.

He took a deep breath. “I don't remember.” The lie was easy. His response was cold.

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