angry - Story 5984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt impossibly slow. Each floor that blinked by on the display was a nail in the coffin of his already frayed composure. The announcement – the *audacity* of it – had left a bitter taste in his mouth.

He slammed his apartment door shut behind him. His hands fisted at his sides. He needed to *do* something. He needed to vent. He ripped the newspaper out of the delivery box and threw it against the wall, watching the flimsy sheets flutter to the floor.

He stared at the blank wall, imagining the faces of the new owners. The greed. The disregard. He wanted to scream, to bellow until his voice gave out.

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