He slammed the car door with a force that made the vehicle shudder. His sister, Emily, was converting to Hinduism, and he was disgusted. The drive home had been filled with forced smiles and stifled platitudes. Now, alone in his garage, he felt a wave of pure, unfiltered fury wash over him. He kicked at a spare tire, sending it rolling across the concrete floor. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He hated the thought of her worshipping foreign gods, embracing rituals that were alien to everything he held dear.

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