He slammed the letter against the wall, the paper momentarily clinging before fluttering to the floor. The contents confirmed his suspicions, the suspicions that had been gnawing at him for weeks. His father, the man who had always presented himself as the picture of integrity, had fathered another child.

He paced his apartment, the uneven floorboards creaking under his weight. He could feel a pressure building in his head, a headache of monumental proportions. He grabbed a glass from the cupboard and hurled it at the wall.

He needed to escape the confining walls, to break free from the suffocating feeling.

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