"That's my song," he muttered under his breath, watching the band on the small screen of the bar's TV. A cover band from a town hours away had somehow acquired his composition, "Broken Wings". He knew he should be flattered, but a slow burn was taking hold.

His shoulders tensed. The singer was doing a horrible impression. He tapped his foot, irritated by the mispronunciation of a key lyric. He'd put the song together during some difficult times. He felt a desire to smash something. He looked down and drained his glass. He would call his lawyer.

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