David found the notice taped to the door of the pottery studio. “Mr. Ito has retired.” His jaw tightened, the muscles flexing. He ripped the paper from the door, crumpling it in his fist. All that time, all the effort, all the quiet conversations, the shared passion for the craft… and nothing. He felt a potent, consuming heat, a fire in his chest. He threw the crumpled paper into a nearby trash can, not quite able to look away.

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