angry - Story 5776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the room, the rug wearing thin under his rapid steps. His sister, Olivia, was the sole heir to their mother's jewelry collection. He, Thomas, received only a framed photograph of his parents. The photograph stared back at him with serene eyes.

He felt a throbbing pulse behind his temples, a pressure building. He’d always felt like the outsider, never good enough. The jewelry collection held sentimental value. The collection represented the bond he felt he didn't have.

He wanted to scream. To break something. He imagined grabbing the picture and ripping it to shreds.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" he asked, his voice strained. The lawyer gave him a pitying look. Olivia’s expression was unreadable.

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