angry - Story 5886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on her ears. It was a Saturday night, and she was stuck washing dishes while the sound of a lavish party drifted from the house next door. The house of Ms. Dubois, a woman who always wore expensive clothes and spent a fortune on her dog. The revelation that Ms. Dubois was a millionaire had been revealed earlier in the week. Her already tiresome and stressful life of working as a waitress felt utterly meaningless. She scrubbed at a stubborn stain on a plate, her movements harsh and abrupt. Every movement was a struggle to maintain her composure.

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