He grabbed his coat, his movements jerky and hurried. The door slammed shut behind him with a resounding crack, the sound echoing in the empty house. He walked quickly, his steps taking him further away from the place they'd built together, a place now tainted. The phone, the source of it all, was still on the bedside table. He imagined smashing it, burning it, anything to erase the truth that now consumed him. His throat constricted, making it hard to breathe.

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