The knot in his stomach tightened with each passing sentence. The way his friend, Ben, was explaining this move, it felt like he was describing the most exciting thing in the world, while John was forced to smile and nod. The vibrant, sunny scenery outside the window seemed almost taunting. He shifted in his chair, trying to find a comfortable position, but the tension was too high. He wanted to reach across the table and physically prevent Ben from getting on that plane, to grab him and shake him until he understood.

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