angry - Story 5738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paint brush scraped across the canvas with a violence that shocked him. The serene landscape he'd been working on turned quickly into a twisted mess of colors. His chest tightened, a pressure building. He’d been trying to create something beautiful, something to hold onto. Now, the news of Maria leaving for Texas had shattered that illusion. He wanted to tear the canvas, to destroy the image, to obliterate the thought of her ever leaving him. His hand shook as he wiped the sweat from his brow.

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