He threw the phone across the room. It hit the wall with a hollow thud, the screen cracking. The crash of the phone, and the shattering of the screen, did little to soothe the tightness in his chest. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up as if he were trying to physically pull himself away from this reality. He began to pace, his steps erratic, his eyes darting from one object to another.

"Damn it," he muttered, his voice barely audible above the pounding of his own heart. The injustice of it all fueled a fire within him, a burning resentment that threatened to consume him.

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