The news hit Ben like a physical blow. He stared at the email, the words blurring on the screen. Another patient's records? He felt a heat rising in his chest, a sensation that spread outwards, consuming him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He needed to move, to do something, anything, to release the tension that coiled within him.

He paced the room, back and forth, the same thoughts racing through his mind, over and over. This was a nightmare. This wasn't how things were supposed to be.

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