angry - Story 5758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, stained with what looked like coffee, landed on the table with a dull thud. His entire body ached. He pushed his chair back, the screech of the legs echoing loudly in the empty room. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a tightness in his throat that made it difficult to swallow. He looked at the window and wanted to throw something through it. He looked at the letter and wanted to set it on fire.

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