“This is a joke, right?” Michael spat, his voice laced with acid. The doctor, younger than him, tried to offer a placating smile, but it only served to intensify his mounting disapproval. He had waited months for this appointment, and now, this. Someone else's medical history.

He drummed his fingers on the doctor's desk. The metallic tapping echoed in the silent room, a counterpoint to the racing pulse in his chest. He felt as though a steel band was tightening around his head.

"I want answers," he stated. Each word was clipped, precise. He would not let this go.

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