angry - Story 5907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re telling me,” Brenda said, her voice dangerously calm, “that I just… move on? Find another school?” Her voice was level, but the tremor in her hands betrayed the fury churning beneath the surface. Her gaze was locked onto the admissions officer, her eyes boring into him.

The officer stammered, offering reassurances, but his words only fueled the internal fire. Years of commitment, a mountain of debt, and now… this. The thought sent a shiver down her spine. The room felt stifling. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make them understand the devastation they'd caused.

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