The dog's presence was a physical affront. He felt the tension coil in his shoulders as he gazed out the window. The dog had broken through, yet again. He slammed his fist on the windowsill, the wood vibrating with the impact. "Damn it all!" he barked.

He marched out the back door, and immediately felt the heat rise within him. It was a boiling pot of resentment, ready to spill over. He had carefully cultivated his garden. This dog was an act of constant sabotage, digging up his vegetables, trampling the flowers.

He glared at the oblivious animal. He wanted to shout, to scream, to make the world understand the sheer volume of his irritation. He just wanted some peace.

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