He kicked at the floor, hard. The pain in his foot was a small, satisfying distraction from the boiling heat of his inner turmoil. He was late, again. His boss was a complete jerk.

He crossed his arms, staring at the ceiling. The flickering lights felt like a personal insult. He wanted to destroy something. He needed to release the pressure, but there was nowhere to go, nothing to do.

"Just great," he muttered, the words barely a whisper. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and failed to feel any semblance of calm. He opened them again, and they instantly darted toward the other person in the elevator.

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