angry - Story 5906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the nearest textbook and hurled it across the room. It slammed against the wall, pages fluttering to the floor. Alex stood there, chest heaving, the remnants of his carefully constructed world now strewn about his dorm room. He felt a pressure behind his eyes, a sensation that threatened to explode.

He had worked so hard. Scholarships, late nights, skipping meals. Now it was all for naught. The institution's neglect, the administration’s incompetence—it was all he could fixate on. His fists clenched so tightly, his nails dug into his palms. He couldn't calm down. He could barely breathe.

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