angry - Story 5817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to taunt her. She wandered through the exhibits, pretending to admire the abstract paintings, but her mind was elsewhere. The news had been a shock, a brutal reminder of a past she'd worked hard to bury.

The artist's name, on the bottom of a painting, suddenly triggered a memory. A moment of embarrassment, a cutting word. She’d tried to avoid it, to keep it locked away. The memories of her school experiences were suddenly fresh in her mind, as if she was living them again.

Her breath hitched, and she felt a tremor pass through her. She needed air.

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