“What the HELL is this?” Mark bellowed, the words ripping from his throat. He threw the notice onto the already cluttered coffee table. The cat, startled by the outburst, leaped from the couch and vanished under the sofa. His chest felt constricted, as if a vise was squeezing the breath from him. He kicked at a stray shoe, sending it skittering across the room. He wanted to break something, anything.

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