He saw the video. A time-lapse of someone getting a tattoo of his ‘Sun Eater’ design. It was perfect. His insides twisted. The artist who did this, obviously skilled, had been disrespectful.

He stood up. He walked towards the kitchen. He opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. He took a single, long gulp.

He smashed the water bottle against the counter. The glass shattered. Then, he stormed out of his house. He was going to find this person, and he was going to make him pay.

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