The air crackled with a silent tension. John found himself staring at the wall, his hands clenched at his sides. He wanted to punch it, to shatter something. The privacy he had craved, the small world he had meticulously crafted, had been ruined.

He heard his roommate, Mark, whistling in the hallway. John’s jaw tightened. He swung open the door, his eyes blazing.

“Mark! Get in here!” he barked. His voice was a raw growl.

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