The flyer, a cheap photocopy, showed his intricate designs, re-purposed, re-imagined by someone else. A wave of heat washed over him, a burning sensation that started in his chest and spread to his extremities. He crumpled the paper in his hand.

He felt a powerful urge to break something, to obliterate something. The thief’s brazen audacity was almost too much to bear. His breath hitched in his throat. He would not stand for this. He was going to make sure the world understood what had been done.

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