angry - Story 5743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the counter, and I wanted to crush it. Just. Crush. It. It was Mrs. Petrov, a neighbor I barely tolerated. “Oh, dear, did you see?” she trilled, her voice sickeningly sweet. “Terrible about the tree, isn’t it?”

“Yes, it’s just *wonderful*," I replied, my voice dangerously even. The bile rose in my throat. I could feel my pulse hammering against my temples. Wonderful that it had destroyed half my rose bushes. Wonderful that my weekend plans were now ruined.

I ended the call abruptly, shoving the phone into my pocket. I needed to go see. I needed to see the carnage. And then, I needed to figure out how *she* was going to pay for it.

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