He paced, the polished floorboards of his apartment creaking under his relentless movement. The unauthorized biography sat on his coffee table, a sleek black monolith of betrayal. Every word felt like a deliberate misrepresentation. He felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach. He’d poured years into building his reputation, a reputation now seemingly open for anyone to distort and manipulate.

His gaze snapped to his phone. He grabbed it and punched in a number with a speed that bordered on violence. “I want him,” he growled into the receiver, his voice low and dangerous. “I want him here. Now.” He wouldn't rest until he had answers.

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