angry - Story 5727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter felt icy in his trembling hands. His father, a man who always seemed calm and collected. The truth, revealed on a sheet of yellowed paper. He wanted to claw at his skin, to rip it off and escape the confines of his own body. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, an urgency to… to break something.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a stack of books. He didn't bother to pick them up. He walked into the kitchen, grabbed a heavy pot, and hurled it against the wall. The sound was deafening. He wanted more. More destruction.

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