He stared at the photograph, his vision blurring. His hands clenched into fists. His grandmother, the woman who had always lamented her difficult life, was in this photograph with a man who was not his grandfather. They were smiling and happy. The woman in the photograph had always said, "I have always done what I had to do for my family."

He felt a pressure building in his chest. It was a pressure that built up over years of him being told lies. The pressure was released with a loud crash as he picked up a vase, slamming it into the wall.

He grabbed the next one, but it was just as quickly dropped.

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