angry - Story 5988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blandly worded email sat like a lead weight in her inbox. “Improvements.” The audacity. The sheer, unadulterated nerve of it all. It felt like a deliberate personal attack. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

She slammed her laptop shut, the sound echoing unnervingly in the quiet apartment. She felt a burning sensation in the back of her throat, and her fists clenched until her knuckles were white.

She paced the length of the living room, a storm of thoughts and emotions swirling inside her. She needed to take action, to fight back, to make them understand. She wouldn't let them win.

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