The sunlight seemed to intensify as he listened to the man’s proposal. The world swam around him. He felt his shoulders tense, his jaw lock. The air in his lungs felt tight.

"You want my yard?" he croaked, the words barely a whisper. The disrespect of it. He wanted to shout, but he couldn't.

He imagined the disruption, the intrusion. The violation of his solitude. He wanted to scream.

He shook his head, unable to speak, and stomped away, the ground beneath his feet not feeling solid.

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