"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible above the hum of the refrigerator. The book was a betrayal. It was an intrusion. Sarah felt a tremor run through her, making her legs weak. She felt a strong urge to crumple the book up. Her hands were shaking so bad she could barely hold it steady.

She wanted to call her lawyer, but she wasn’t even sure what to do. The whole situation left her feeling vulnerable and exposed. She needed to do something to regain control, to reassert her privacy. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.

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