angry - Story 5788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the description. “Move-in ready,” it declared. He let out a harsh, humorless laugh. Move-in ready. Like it was just a house. Like it didn't hold years of his life.

He walked over to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street. He pictured the new owners, oblivious to the ghosts that lingered within those walls. The thought grated on his nerves.

He turned and kicked the side of the desk, the pain momentarily distracting him from the rising tide of…discomfort.

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