"Your arm is good. But… we need you as the catcher." Mark, the team's ace pitcher, felt his face grow hot. His jaw tightened. The words were a bitter pill he couldn't swallow.

He looked down at his glove, his familiar companion. The dugout was suddenly smaller, closer. He wanted to launch the baseball into the stratosphere. He wanted to slam his bat against the dugout.

He couldn't stand the new arrangement. The injustice of it all burned.

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