and other anger when finding your base
This is where anger first moves outward. Something pushed into your space, and the body pushes back to hold its ground.
AGGRESSIVE. Force moving outward at a target. The body leans in instead of away, pressing forward to push something back or take ground it wants. Researchers split it into the reactive kind, anger boiling over, and the instrumental kind, cold force with an aim (Dodge). Both push the same direction: at you.
DEFENSIVE. Braced against a hit, real or expected. The guard goes up before any blow lands, and everything starts reading as a possible attack. Protection that has stopped checking whether the threat is actually in the room.
HOSTILE. Set against you from the start. COMBATIVE. Ready to make everything a fight. BELLIGERENT. Loudly looking for the fight. PUGNACIOUS. Itching to swing. CONFRONTATIONAL. Walks straight at the conflict. PUSHY. Over your line before you agreed. DOMINEERING. Taking your space to shrink you. TERRITORIAL. Guarding what's mine, teeth showing. GUARDED. Braced, giving nothing away. CORNERED. The fight that comes from no exit. PROTECTIVE. The same push, aimed at keeping someone safe.
This arc gives anger a job. It starts as fire in the body, learns its target, survives broken trust, finds its voice, and ends with the hold broken and the life back.