The news had hit him like a physical blow. James stalked through his immaculate kitchen, his movements jerky and agitated. He’d been so careful, so disciplined, so determined to maintain control. Now, this.

The doctor had spoken of the support group, the shared experiences, the mutual understanding. James dismissed it immediately. He did not share. He did not commiserate.

He found himself pacing his living room. The other person… he had to meet them.

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