angry - Story 5918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The homeowner's association email arrived, and she tossed her phone onto the sofa. The subject line: "Regarding the Oak Tree on the Property Line." They wanted to "assess" its condition. She knew the assessment would lead to one thing.

She could feel her chest tighten. The nerve of them! They treated her like an inconvenience, a nuisance. She imagined them, the busy-body board members, their noses buried in rules and regulations, the oak being a problem they could control.

She rose, moving restlessly around her living room. She picked up a decorative pillow and threw it back down. Every fiber of her being screamed NO. The tree was staying.

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