The keys clattered onto the kitchen counter, followed by a curse that filled the usually quiet space. "Seriously?" Liam exploded. His gaze snapped to the space outside the window. Empty. Gone.

He felt a tremor in his hands, a sudden chill despite the morning sun. Everything felt wrong. His car was more than just a car; it was his freedom, his escape. He ran back out, his steps heavy.

He had spent the entire week preparing for a weekend trip. The thought of wasted effort, and an unexpected expense, made his blood boil. He would sort this out. He would.

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