angry - Story 5967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, neat handwriting filled the page. “See the Taj Mahal.” “Learn to dance tango.” “Break free.” Break free. The words hit him like a physical blow. James had a knot in his chest.

He slammed the drawer shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. He wanted to lash out, to scream, to accuse. He did none of it. He began to pace.

He needed to get away, to clear his head. He pulled on his coat and walked out the door. The crisp, cold air did nothing to soothe his agitation. He kept walking, the words of the list replaying in his mind.

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