angry - Story 5856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ride a hot air balloon." Emily read the words aloud, her voice trembling. Her sister had found the list, hidden in a jewelry box. Tears pricked her eyes, but they were mixed with something else, something sharp and acrid.

Her sister, always so adventurous, so full of life. Why hadn’t she shared this? The thought burned within her. The list felt like a secret kept, a part of her sister she hadn't known. The unfairness of it all constricted her throat.

She slammed the jewelry box shut, the metallic click echoing in the quiet room. She paced the length of the room, her hands clenched into fists. A burning resentment surged through her, a consuming fire.

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