He saw the posts in the ground, the skeletal framework of the monstrosity. His blood boiled. They were already claiming his space, building their fortress.

He kicked a small pebble across his yard, sending it skittering toward the fence line. He felt a tremor in his hands, a surge of adrenaline. He wanted to take a sledgehammer to it.

He took a deep breath. He would not give them the satisfaction. He went back inside, and closed the curtains, the sun's glare the only thing he could bear.

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