angry - Story 5922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d ripped the parking ticket from his windshield with a savage pull. Liam crumpled it in his hand, a balled-up declaration of war against the city, against the universe. This was the third ticket this month. He hadn’t been this heated since the diagnosis.

The appointment at the specialist's felt like another intrusion. The doctor explained the condition, the limitations, the potential for complications. Liam stared out the window, the words washing over him, a pointless stream. He couldn't keep his hands still, he fidgeted, he wanted to break something.

The doctor mentioned another patient, someone else with the same ailment. A name, a phone number. Liam tossed the card in the bin on the way out. He didn't want to talk to anyone. He wanted to scream.

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