angry - Story 5888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. John stared at the brochure for a luxury vacation package, the glossy photos mocking him. His neighbor, Mr. Harrison, was currently enjoying a trip to the Alps, according to the pictures all over social media. The man was always complaining about the “market.” His hands were trembling, his palms slick with sweat. He crushed the brochure in his fist.

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