angry - Story 6000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon. He was sitting at his desk, working. He didn't even read the full subject line before his stomach sank. His essay, "The Blueprint of Resilience," was on the alumni website. He felt a wave of icy dread.

His fingers clenched, digging into the wood of his desk. He reread the introduction, each word a fresh wound. The essay detailed the loss of his father. Now, it was on display, a public performance of his grief.

He stood up so fast, his chair clattered to the floor. The fury within him was a live wire. He felt the urge to throw his computer through the window, to obliterate anything and everything that reminded him of this invasion.

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