angry - Story 5807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt suffocating, the air thick with the unspoken implications. The man’s calm, rehearsed speech about his client’s affairs felt like a personal affront. Michael wanted to interrupt, to scream at the smug man.

He pushed his chair back from the polished wooden table. His hands felt clammy, and he wiped them on his trousers. The revelation of the will, the acknowledgement of a half-sister, felt like a deliberate act of spite.

He stormed out of the office, the door slamming shut behind him with a resounding crack.

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