angry - Story 5759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the handwriting that sparked the outrage. The familiar, looping script, a ghost of a past she was desperate to forget. Her breath caught in her throat. She gripped the arms of the chair so hard her fingers ached. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. She stood abruptly, knocking the chair over. She didn't bother to pick it up. She wanted to disappear, to obliterate the very concept of this letter and the person who sent it.

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