angry - Story 5803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just like him," Sarah muttered, her voice barely a whisper as she stared at the stranger across the coffee shop. The woman had the same crooked smile, the same way of holding her hands that she had seen on her father.

Her palms began to sweat, and she instinctively reached for her water. She took a large gulp, the cold liquid doing little to soothe the tightness in her chest. The cafe felt stifling; the air thick with unspoken truths.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the illusion of her perfectly constructed life. Instead, she rose abruptly, knocking over her chair in her haste to leave.

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