The pounding started again. Liam slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, rattling the coffee mugs. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck bunching. He could feel the pulse hammering in his temples. It was a rhythmic thud, thud, thud, coming from next door. He grabbed his coat, ripping it off the hook with unnecessary force. “That’s it,” he muttered, his voice tight. He was going over there, right now.

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