"Just… wow," Leo muttered, staring at the book in his hands. A slow burn started in his chest. A hot, invasive thing. He felt a sudden urge to rip the pages, tear them to shreds, scatter them to the wind. The audacity of it. The gall. He'd lived his life, made his choices, and now some stranger thought they had the right to package it all up and sell it.

He tossed the book onto the floor, the cover facing down. He wouldn't let it contaminate his view. He wouldn't even let the thing sit on his table. He needed a distraction, something to ground him. He grabbed his keys, headed out, and went to the boxing gym.

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