angry - Story 5756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, a slow burn rising within him. He felt his face flush. He was sure his ears were ringing. Years of carefully constructed composure threatened to crumble. He crumpled the paper, squeezing it into a tight ball, and threw it in the trash. He found himself pacing. He felt a desperate need to work, to exert physical effort, to channel the surge of emotion coursing through him. He went to the gym and lifted weights until his muscles screamed.

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