The hammering started before dawn. The relentless *thwack, thwack, thwack* was a deliberate assault on her senses. She lay in bed, unable to sleep, her heart pounding in her chest.

She pulled the covers over her head, but the sound still penetrated, each blow a fresh insult. She buried her face in the pillow, trying to block out the noise, the reminder of their encroachment.

The feeling in her chest was a cold, hard stone. She wanted to scream, to make it stop. But she couldn't.

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