He stared at the package, a pulse throbbing in his temple. Another one. "To the Resident." Never the right resident. This was the fifth one this month. He’d called the post office, left a message. Nothing. He balled his fists, knuckles whitening.

He grabbed his keys and practically threw himself out the door, the package forgotten on the doorstep. The air felt thick, heavy, as he walked to his car. He slammed the driver’s side door, the metal reverberating.

He cranked the engine and gunned it down the street, tires squealing as he peeled out of the driveway. He needed to *move.* Anything, to escape the suffocating feeling that had settled over him.

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