The head coach spoke, and the room became a cage. "We're going to move you to a defensive position." Jessica's fists clenched. She was a striker. Scoring goals was her passion, her talent.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm. Her stomach churned. The very air felt oppressive, heavy. All she could do was stare at the polished floor.

She wanted to refuse, wanted to rebel. Instead, she just turned to leave. She would show them.

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