angry - Story 5909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quietest place on campus, the library, which had always soothed her. But today, the silence was suffocating. The air was thick, and the books lining the shelves seemed to leer at her. Each page, each title, represented another lost possibility. The weight of it all was crushing.

Emily sat at her desk, her hands folded, but she couldn’t focus. The words on the page blurred into nonsense. It was just a black blotch. Her heart pounded a furious rhythm against her ribs. She couldn’t stay. She wanted to run, to escape the confines of this place, this reality. She wanted to lash out.

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