He pulled the car onto the curb, the tires screeching slightly. The sight of Mr. Abernathy’s pristine, gleaming sports car parked next to his own beat-up sedan made something inside him twist. He’d been working overtime for weeks, struggling to keep his head above water, while Abernathy, who constantly talked about "market fluctuations," was clearly swimming in wealth. He shoved the door open, the metal groaning in protest. With each step towards his front door, his fists kept clenching and unclenching.

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