angry - Story 5850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the loose paving stone on his front path, sending it skittering across the dry lawn. The note from Mrs. Gable lay crumpled in the dirt. Her complaint about the "frequent hammering and renovations" felt like a personal attack. He was trying to improve the property, to build a life for himself. He needed to be constructive. He had to be. But the injustice of it all - his gut churned.

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