angry - Story 5715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood was roaring in her ears. Clara reread the words, each one a slap across her face. Her breath came in ragged gasps. She wanted to scream, to shatter the pristine silence of the apartment. She threw the notice onto the table. Then, she picked it back up, and walked over to the trash can, crumpling it in her fist. It felt so wrong to throw it away, as if letting it go would make it real.

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