angry - Story 5994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article appeared while he was at a local coffee shop. The barista called his name, but he didn't move. His essay was plastered on the front page of the alumni magazine. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. "The Unsent Letter," it was called.

He stood frozen, his coffee forgotten. The article was a showcase of his darkest thoughts, a plea for help he had crafted years ago. His palms grew slick with sweat. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. How could they?

He wanted to tear the magazine apart, to erase the words, to rewind time and prevent this humiliation. He gripped the edge of the counter, his knuckles white. The barista called his name again, but he just shook his head and turned away.

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