The sheer injustice of it all. His inheritance, squandered by his older brother. The house, which should have been his, felt like a constant reminder of his loss. He stalked from room to room, the very air vibrating with his frustration. His shoulders were bunched, his jaw clenched, and his fists were clenched.

He slammed a fist against the wall, leaving a dent in the plaster. A flicker of movement. The baseboard, somehow, wasn’t quite flush with the wall.

He ripped it away.

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