He stared at the listing, the words on the screen blurring slightly. The real estate agent's flowery descriptions felt like an insult. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He found himself standing, pacing. He remembered the smell of his mom’s cooking, the sound of his dad’s laughter. Those precious memories now just something that was for sale.

"Unbelievable," he hissed, his voice strained. He felt as if someone had stolen a part of him. The listing was a glaring reminder of loss, of change, of a past he couldn't reclaim.

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