The door slammed with a resounding crash, shaking the framed photographs on the hallway wall. He paced, each footfall a heavy thud against the hardwood floor. His fists were clenched, muscles bulging. The air in the apartment felt thick, suffocating. He’d just found out. John was moving to New York. The thought ignited a fire in his chest that threatened to consume him. He wanted to break something, to yell until his voice was raw, to make the world understand the hollowness that had suddenly taken root.

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