angry - Story 5739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin crawl. The words, "I'm going to be moving to Canada", echoed in her mind. Her friend, Jessica, was speaking, but the words were a blur, just noise. The room felt small, the air thick, unbreathable. She wanted to bolt, to escape the suffocating presence of their friendship now being divided by borders. She excused herself, muttering something about needing air, and fled outside, where the wind offered no solace.

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