angry - Story 5796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It wasn’t disclosed,” he repeated, his voice dangerously low. The real estate agent, now looking thoroughly flustered, stammered a weak apology. Ethan felt a tremor of fury run through his body. He’d signed up for a comfortable life, not to live inside a building where someone had been killed. He pictured the blood soaking through the floorboards. The thought repulsed him. He found himself pacing through the house, his feet pounding on the wooden floors, each step a declaration of his simmering displeasure.

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