He stared at the spreadsheet, a black and white world of numbers and figures. He’d thought he’d been making progress. Getting close. Then, the name: "Jessica - Date Night." He'd been looking at the calendar. He had not been thinking about any dates with Jessica. He needed to leave the office. Immediately.

The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping against the floor. He went to the window, staring out at the cityscape, feeling trapped. He was going to find out what was going on. He felt the need to confront the situation and find out what was happening.

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