angry - Story 5996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up during her shift at the library. "Featured Essay: 'The Cartography of Loss'." She knew immediately. She recognized the title. Her entire body stiffened. Her heart rate increased.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was supposed to be between her and the admissions committee, not public domain. The essay detailed her childhood, her struggles, her relationship with her mother. She could almost feel the weight of prying eyes upon her.

She quickly exited the website, the digital betrayal leaving a bitter taste in her mouth. She returned to reshelving books, but the words still swirled in her head. She gripped the spines of the books with a little more force than necessary. She felt the urge to throw them all across the room.

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