angry - Story 5982 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d paced the length of his living room twenty times, the worn rug offering no solace to his restless feet. The sunlight, previously a welcome guest, now seemed to assault him, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air, a visual representation of his own unsettled state. A coldness settled in his gut.

The letter lay open on the coffee table, the sleek, corporate font taunting him with its bland assurances. *"Exciting opportunity."* Opportunity? To be priced out of his home? To be forced to scramble and relocate? He felt the familiar pressure behind his eyes, a tightening that threatened to burst.

He grabbed the remote and slammed it into the television with a resounding thump. He wanted something to break, to shatter, to express the volcanic eruption inside. The silent screen stared back, an unresponsive void.

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