The concert hall was filled with his compositions, played by a renowned orchestra. But the program displayed someone else’s name as the composer. He felt a constriction in his chest, a tightness that made it hard to breathe. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He felt a deep sense of wrong. He wanted to yell, to shout, to stop the music, to expose the lie. He felt trapped, helpless. He balled his hands into fists. He would not let them enjoy this theft. He had plans to make them pay.

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