The news had hit him like a punch to the gut. The quiet, unassuming old man next door, Mr. Finch, was a collector of priceless art. He'd lived in that modest house for years, never flaunting his wealth, always offering a friendly wave. The deceit felt palpable, suffocating. He threw his tools down, the clang of metal echoing in the garage. His shoulders slumped. He felt an intense need to smash something.

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