"So, they chose *her*?" Mark spat the words out, the emphasis heavy with disbelief. He was leaning against the counter in his cluttered workshop, fiddling with a wrench. The metal glinted coldly in the dim light.

He slammed the wrench down on the workbench, the sound a sharp, percussive blast. His jaw tightened, muscles jumping under his skin. The air felt suddenly close, constricting. He could practically smell Sarah's over-the-top perfume from here.

He grabbed a hammer, and took a few swings at the vise he had been setting up. The metal cracked and gave way.

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