The vibrant colors of the artwork on his walls seemed to mock him with their cheerful indifference. He'd poured his heart into curating this space, a personal sanctuary, only to have it threatened by a bunch of faceless investors. The gall!

He paced, his footsteps heavy, the floorboards groaning in protest. He felt a fire burning in his chest, a heat that he couldn't dissipate. He kicked a discarded shoe across the room, the impact jarring through his foot.

He grabbed his journal and furiously started scribbling, the pen scratching against the paper a desperate attempt to channel the hurricane brewing within.

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