angry - Story 5976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the ink blurring slightly. It was so presumptuous. He crushed the paper in his fist, the crumpled edges digging into his palm.

“A garden? On *my* property?” he muttered, the words laced with disgust. He felt a tremor throughout his whole body. The world seemed to wobble.

The image of someone else trampling on his efforts sent a jolt of pure frustration. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. The unfairness of it.

He tossed the note in the trash, and marched to the porch, feeling a rage that he couldn't control.

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