"No way," I muttered, my voice barely a whisper. The news report flickered on the TV screen, the restaurant's bright logo mocking me. I felt a surge of heat rush up my neck, making me squirm.

I punched the remote, switching off the television. I wanted silence, not those grinning faces. I wanted to smash something, anything.

I stalked around my apartment, restless and unable to focus. My hands fidgeted, picking at the loose threads of my shirt. The closure felt like a personal betrayal.

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