The notification buzzed, a tiny electric shock that shot through Finn. A fan had messaged him with a picture: a tattoo, a perfect replica of his ‘Lost Souls’ sketch. His stomach felt like a knotted rope.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He felt the sting in his knuckles. He went to his window to look out. The street looked blurry. He took a deep breath.

He stood up and began pacing his room. He should be flattered, right? He was not. His paintings were his babies, and to see one copied… stolen... it made him feel violated. He had to decide what to do.

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:
C0.354
est0.354
aggravated0.342
🤬0.337
0.323
Suppressed:
de-0.424
a-0.411
la-0.341
H-0.320
L-0.296