He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white, as he drove to the office. The morning commute had felt particularly torturous. The radio personality, usually a source of amusement, grated on his nerves. He felt a deep, pervasive agitation.

He parked the car with unnecessary force, the tires screeching against the asphalt. The new guy, standing outside the office, waved. He ignored it. He was supposed to train the kid, a complete stranger. A young, enthusiastic stranger who would likely be his replacement.

He slammed the car door shut. "Morning," he muttered, the word a mere rumble. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temple. This was going to be a long day.

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