The surveyor's measuring tape, snaking across the front lawn, was a physical violation. “Get off my property,” Michael snarled, his voice a low growl. The man in the orange vest, unfazed, continued his work. Michael's fists clenched.

His father had built that house. Brick by painstaking brick. His dad would be sickened.

He wanted to tear the tape away, to throw it into the street. He’d spend all his savings if he could keep them from touching the place.

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