angry - Story 5726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, the paper trembling slightly in his hands. His mother's handwriting, elegant and precise, mocking him. Resignation. He felt a throbbing pulse behind his eyes. He had believed he knew her. He had believed she loved the life she had.

He threw the letter across the room. It landed near the hearth. He watched it, his chest heaving, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He wanted to set the house on fire. To destroy everything. He turned away from the letter, unable to bear the sight of it. He needed to get out, he thought.

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