angry - Story 5820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the storm raging inside her. She paced her small apartment, the hardwood floors creaking under her hurried steps. It had been a week since she learned the news, a week of sleepless nights and restless days.

She picked up a framed photograph from the table, a picture of her younger self, smiling and carefree. The contrast between that girl and the woman she was now, burdened by the past, was stark. She wanted to throw it away, to shatter the image, to destroy the reminder. She threw the photo down, her hand shaking.

She turned away, tears pricking at her eyes.

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