He paced the sterile expanse of the departure gate, his phone clutched in a white-knuckled grip. Each robotic voice announcing a further postponement ratcheted up the tension in his chest. His breath hitched in ragged gasps. The business deal, the one he'd spent months cultivating, was slipping through his fingers. He'd poured his life savings into this trip, and now, thanks to some bureaucratic nonsense, it was all for naught.

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