The phone slammed down onto the receiver. "They're at it again!" She spat the words into the empty room. Her carefully curated tranquility had been stolen.

She checked her watch for the tenth time in an hour, but the noise persisted. Her fingers drummed against the table, a frantic rhythm matching the building din.

The air felt thick, charged with unspoken grievances. She stalked to the window, glaring at the chaos next door, a burning sensation behind her eyes.

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