angry - Story 5711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Elias’s hands as he crumpled it, the edges biting into his palms. He slammed it against the kitchen counter, the cheap laminate rattling under the impact. His jaw was clenched so tightly he felt a muscle spasm near his ear. He stalked over to the window, shoving aside the dusty curtain to glare at the building across the street. A woman was hanging laundry; he imagined tearing the clothes right off the line.

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