The text message: "Can't make it tonight, something came up." He had been looking forward to seeing "Megan". Now, looking at the picture of her and another woman, he felt a coldness wash over him. He felt the blood drain from his face.

The world seemed to spin. He needed to do something. He paced the room. He felt a tremor in his hands and a pounding in his head. He wanted to lash out. To scream. He wanted to erase the situation and make it all disappear.

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