The coffee shop's piped-in music snagged his attention. It was "Sunrise Serenade," the instrumental piece he'd composed. The jaunty tempo and bright keyboard riffs felt like a cruel joke. Someone had licensed his music for a commercial, and it was being used to advertise cat food.

He pressed his lips into a thin line. He wanted to scream. He was filled with a bitter sting. He’d poured his heart into that piece, a moment of fragile beauty, and now it was cheapened. He stood up abruptly and approached the counter. His voice was cold as he addressed the barista.

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