angry - Story 5725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The typed words blurred slightly as she stared at the letter. Her father, the steady rock of her childhood, wanted to leave. Why hadn't he? She felt a tightening in her throat, a physical manifestation of the storm within. She kicked at the worn rug, sending dust motes dancing in the sunlight.

She needed air, needed to be away from the stifling atmosphere of the house. The world felt too small. She grabbed her coat and slammed the door behind her, the sound echoing through the empty halls. Her fists clenched. She would find her sister. Maybe they could figure this out.

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