angry - Story 5728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” she hissed, the word a venomous whisper. Her grandmother, the matriarch, the strong one. The carefully constructed image crumbled before her eyes. The letter lay on the table, the black ink stark against the white paper. Resignation.

She slammed her fist on the table, the force rattling the dishes. She wanted to scream, to lash out. The silence in the house made it worse. She grabbed her keys and practically ran out the door. The sun felt too bright, the air too heavy. She got in her car, started it up and drove, fast.

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