angry - Story 5769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood motionless, his gaze fixed on the brutal gash. The world tilted slightly. A wave of nausea washed over him. The wind, once a gentle whisper, now seemed to howl with laughter. It wasn't the tree itself. It was the principle of the thing.

He felt like smashing something, destroying something, just to feel some control. His hands fisted and unfisted. He bit down on his bottom lip until it bled. He wanted to obliterate anything and everything.

"What gives them the right?" he muttered. The question hung in the air, unanswered, a fresh stab of pain.

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