He hadn't anticipated this. The email's blunt dismissal was a direct affront to the happiness he had been building up to. He felt a surge of heat, a burning sensation spreading through his chest, making it hard to breathe. He threw his phone across the room, it hitting the wall and shattering. The sound of the glass splintering did little to assuage the internal chaos that swirled within him. He started pacing, his stride uneven, a restless energy coursing through him.

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