He ripped off his gardening gloves with brutal force, tossing them onto the lawn. That blasted tree. It had taken a full hour to clear the debris from his prized tomato patch. It had completely obliterated the fence. And the stupid homeowners insurance wouldn't cover the full cost.

His face was flushed. The sun felt like a blowtorch on his skin. He imagined the smug satisfaction on Mr. Davis's face, the owner of the fallen tree. He could just picture him, lounging on his porch, sipping iced tea, completely unconcerned about the chaos he’d caused.

He'd deal with the tree. He'd deal with the mess. But first, he needed a very long, very hot shower.

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