The letter trembled in Arthur’s grip. He’d just read it for the fifth time, and each time, a fresh wave of heat washed over him. He balled it up, squeezing until his knuckles turned white. The audacity of the woman! Claiming his "gentle piano practice" was disturbing her. His piano was an extension of his soul; how dare she imply it was noise? He wanted to scream. He wanted to shout. He wanted to – well, he didn’t know what he wanted.

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