angry - Story 5955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery triggered a cascade of irritation within Ethan. He wasn't in the mood. Not now, not ever. The world was already doing its best to push him over the edge. Now, this. He felt a thrum of something unpleasant behind his eyes as he looked at the box.

He forced the lid open, and as he saw the contents, a sharp sting pierced his heart. Silly, childish things. Why did it have to be so… sentimental? The absurdity of it all tightened his throat.

He threw the lid, the metal clattering across the yard, the noise satisfying, even though it was brief. He turned and stomped toward the garage, slamming the door behind him with unnecessary force.

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