He found the package nestled amongst his mail. The return address was unfamiliar, but the name, “Jessica Riley,” was a familiar irritant. This was the third delivery that month bearing her name. He’d tried everything: talking to the postman, calling the post office, even writing "Return to Sender" on the previous two.

His teeth ground together. He stalked into the kitchen, his muscles taut. He kicked the trash can across the floor. He felt a prickling heat crawling up his neck.

He grabbed his keys and made a beeline for his car. He was going to find the post office and demand that this stop.

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