angry - Story 5804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit David like a physical blow. A half-sister. Another person he had to share his father with. His hands trembled as he stared at the email, the words blurred through a film of unshed tears.

He ripped open the nearest drawer, searching for a bottle of whiskey he knew his mother hid. He needed something to calm the tremors that now racked his limbs. He wanted to shatter something, to obliterate the source of this fresh pain.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as he stumbled towards the living room, the weight of the secret pressing down on him.

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