angry - Story 5919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the neighbor, a young man who looked like he spent all day in a gym, standing next to the tree. The man was admiring the sunlight, the light seeming to spill over him in a golden glow. Suddenly, he knew the request.

He felt something akin to a tremor surge through him, like a rising tide. The man's smile irritated him. He wanted to yell, to tell the man to leave the tree alone. But he restrained himself. He took a deep breath.

"What do you want?" he asked, his voice low and tight. The question held an unspoken challenge. The sunlight didn’t matter to him. The tree did.

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