He stared at the eviction notice, the legal jargon swirling around him like a swarm of angry wasps. The bank was foreclosing. He had sunk every penny he had into fixing up the old place, a place where a double homicide had once occurred. A bitter laugh escaped his lips. He was broke, homeless, and haunted by the ghosts of a tragedy he had nothing to do with. He threw the notice across the room, the flimsy paper fluttering to the floor, and began to pack, his movements jerky and hurried, fueled by a relentless, burning feeling inside him.

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