angry - Story 5753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the page blurred, the ink a frustrating smear. Sarah threw the letter across the room. It struck the wall with a hollow *thwack*. Her breath hitched. Her chest felt constricted, as if a steel band were wrapped around it. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, her fingers twitching uncontrollably. She wanted to scream, to shatter the pristine silence of her apartment. The soft classical music playing from her speakers sounded now, jarring, an insult.

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