angry - Story 5970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the paper. “Become a chef.” “Climb a mountain.” “Find true love.” The words were so simple, so innocent, yet they felt like a betrayal. The room seemed too small, the air thick. He felt a shiver run down his spine.

He threw the list on the table. It landed on the pile of bills. He hated this, this feeling. He needed to get away.

He paced the living room, grabbing his car keys. He slammed the door and sped away. He drove until the landscape blurred, until his head cleared.

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