The clatter of the falling branches had snapped him awake. He bolted upright in bed, heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, intense heat in his chest, as if a fire had been lit inside. The tree. Of course.

He knew that the roof of his garage had taken a direct hit. He could feel it in his gut. Now, he'd be spending his Saturday dealing with insurance companies and contractors. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

He got out of bed, every muscle in his body tight. He needed coffee. Strong coffee. And maybe something to hit.

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