angry - Story 5765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, clutched tight in his hand, seemed mocking. The smiling child, the tiny tree, full of promise. Now, a vast emptiness. A burning sensation flared in his chest, making it hard to draw a breath. He wanted to strike something, to hurt something, to make the world feel the injustice.

He crushed the photo in his hand. The paper tore, a small, insignificant sound. He felt a need to punish someone, to make them understand.

"I can't believe it," he hissed, his voice trembling with a frustration he didn't realize he was feeling. He threw the photo at the remains of the tree.

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