“Are you even listening?” David asked, his voice strained. He turned away from her, unable to meet her gaze. The idea of a snake slithering around their living room made his stomach churn. The pet was something he just wasn't willing to do.

He pushed his hands into his pockets, his fingers curling into fists. He wanted to shout. He wanted to explain, to reason, to make her see the utter absurdity of it all, but he knew it was pointless.

He kicked the base of the table.

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