The gallery owner was giving a tour of the new exhibition. When the tour guide stopped in front of the art piece, Thomas' blood ran cold. The man was admiring Thomas' work, which was now on display under a different name.

Thomas felt a cold wave pass through him, followed by a burning sensation. He was trembling. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and wanted to smash something.

Thomas left the gallery, the injustice of it all making his legs heavy.

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