The lawyer had been so smug. The deal was done. All legal. Now, the bulldozers rumbled, their engines a guttural symphony of destruction. Liam felt a cold emptiness spread through him. It was a physical ache. The world seemed muted.

He glared at the house. It was not just a building. It was a repository of dreams, a shelter for heartbreaks.

He crushed the empty cigarette packet in his hand, a futile gesture. He wanted to scream at the sky, to fight, to somehow stop it.

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