angry - Story 5966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the list, his stomach twisting. “Master the art of origami.” “Learn to play the piano.” “Live a life of excitement.” Excitement. He reread the last word. His hands began to shake. The words, written in her elegant script, felt like a cruel joke.

He grabbed the nearest thing, a glass, and hurled it against the wall. The shattering noise seemed to echo in the sudden quiet. He hated the silence.

He stormed out of the house. He needed to be anywhere but there. He didn't even notice where he was going, just kept walking.

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