angry - Story 5790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of the mouse was a sharp punctuation mark in the quiet room. The photographs showed the house, scrubbed and polished, unrecognizable. A knot tightened in his stomach. He felt his pulse quicken.

He scrolled through the pictures, each one a fresh stab. The perfectly arranged furniture, the bland paint colors – all alien to him. The joy of his childhood. Gone.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed. What right did they have to do this? He wished he could turn back time.

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