He ripped open a box labeled "Miscellaneous." The contents were anything but. A collection of stained, yellowed letters, tied together with a faded ribbon. He flung them aside with a disgusted grunt. Didn't they have any respect?

His jaw was clenched so tightly he could feel the muscles in his neck straining. A wave of heat washed over him, a physical manifestation of his internal turmoil. He kicked at a dented tin toy car, sending it skittering across the floorboards.

"Just… wow," he breathed, the words barely a whisper. How dare they leave this for him? He imagined the previous residents, their smug faces, their complete disregard for anyone else's time and effort. He wished he could go back in time and tell them exactly what he thought of their inconsiderate actions.

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