He stared at the comments section. The words, cruel and anonymous, stung like a thousand tiny needles. He felt a pressure building in his head, a throbbing that threatened to shatter his skull. His fists clenched, nails digging into his palms.

He threw his phone onto the floor, the screen cracking. He paced the length of the room, his movements jerky and uncontrolled. He needed to release the overwhelming feeling that threatened to consume him.

He picked up a heavy lamp and hurled it across the room. The glass shattered, the sound echoing in the oppressive silence. He was beyond caring, consumed by the burning sensation in his chest.

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