angry - Story 5745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children were screaming. Not just a little bit, but a full-blown meltdown. He found himself shouting back, his voice ragged. The tree. The stupid, enormous tree that fell on their swing set.

He could feel his hands trembling as he surveyed the damage. The frame was twisted metal, the seats ripped and broken. Sarah, his youngest, was inconsolable. His shoulders ached with a dull pressure.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. Instead, he forced a smile. "Okay, guys, let's go inside. We'll figure this out." But as he closed the back door, he felt a simmering, resentful burn spreading through him. He knew the insurance would drag on for weeks. Weeks.

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