angry - Story 5750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the fallen tree, arms crossed, jaw clenched. The branches were strewn across his yard, a tangled mess of green and brown. The tree had demolished his rose bushes and crushed the birdbath his grandmother gave him.

He could feel a throbbing behind his eyes. He'd warned Mrs. Peterson. He'd told her the tree was unstable. She'd dismissed him. Now he had to deal with this, with the mess, with the inconvenience.

He took a deep breath, the air thick with the scent of sap. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone, already envisioning the endless calls and emails he'd have to make.

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