The lawyer’s words echoed in Elias’s ears: "Your idea, while innovative, is unfortunately preempted." Elias leaned back, the chair squeaking under his weight. A tremor ran through him. He’d spent countless nights, fueled by coffee and desperation, designing the perfect electric toothbrush. He'd envisioned its sleek design, the way it would revolutionize dental hygiene. Now, his hopes, his dreams, were reduced to a footnote. He slammed the desk, making his coffee jump.

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