He read the letter through twice, the words seeming to mock him with their blandness. He felt a coldness spread through him, a desolate emptiness that was more unsettling than any fiery outburst. He quietly closed the letter. He went to the sink and splashed cold water on his face, trying, and failing, to find some semblance of calm. He stared at his reflection, seeing only a stranger, a vessel of muted disappointment and resignation.

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