angry - Story 5710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project had been rejected. The client was unhappy. His career, it seemed, was stagnating. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture jerky and impatient. His stomach churned. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment.

“Hey, Sam, is that a Camp Silver Lake pin?” David, a new hire, asked.

He stiffened. “Yes,” he said, his voice flat.

"I went there every summer growing up. Did you ever win the swimming competitions? That was tough."

He looked at the floor, his jaw clenched. “No,” he said quietly, the word a whisper of defeat. The swimming competition. The lost race. The girl. The bad week.

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