The numbers swam before his eyes. He’d always believed they shared everything. The hidden bank account, a substantial sum tucked away without his knowledge, was like a physical blow. He felt his hands clench into fists.

He kicked the wastebasket across the room, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. The contents spilled onto the floor. He paced back and forth, unable to stand still. He wanted to break something.

He pulled out his phone, his thumb hovering over her number. He took a deep breath. The knot in his stomach tightened. This was going to be ugly.

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