angry - Story 5899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John threw the exam onto the table with a loud thud that startled the cat, which jumped and fled. He stared at the seventy-nine, the number mocking him. He had convinced himself that he’d done well. He felt a surge of heat spread from his chest up to his face, making his ears burn. He wanted to break something, to yell, to scream. He pushed himself away from the table, pacing the small living room, unable to sit still.

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