The world felt distorted. He'd spent his whole life at this company, years that had bled into an indistinguishable whole. The announcement was a swift kick in the gut, leaving him breathless. His heart hammered in his chest.

He stormed into his office, slamming the door behind him. The sound echoed in the sudden silence. He began pacing, the carpet wearing thin under his rapid footfalls. His tie felt constricting, and he ripped it off, tossing it onto the desk.

He wanted to smash something, to break free of the invisible chains that bound him to this place. He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to regain control. It was no use.

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