angry - Story 5977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's cheerful demeanor was infuriating. It was as if she didn't realize the magnitude of her request. She felt her face burn. The veins in her neck pulsed.

“To use the yard for a garden?” she repeated, her voice tight with disbelief. This was a violation. An assault on his space.

She imagined the damage, the disruption. The thought sparked a volatile sensation. She felt a powerful urge.

“I… I don't know,” she stammered, turning away. She needed space. Air. To get away from this intrusion. The feeling threatened to boil over.

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