The test results were a slap in the face. He reread them, as if repetition could alter the outcome. *Relationship: Unlikely*. His world contracted. He felt a deep-seated desire to demolish his surroundings.

He slammed his fist on the table. The coffee cups rattled. He rose to his feet, a restless energy coursing through him. He needed an outlet, a means of expression for the turmoil swirling inside.

He walked to the garage, the metallic scent of tools and gasoline filling his nostrils. He grabbed a wrench and began to dismantle his motorcycle, the familiar act a physical manifestation of his internal chaos.

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