"Your passing skills are needed in the midfield." For Maria, it was the worst news. After years of hard work, she was to be moved from striker. Her eyes narrowed.

The field, her favorite place, seemed to have twisted. A wave of heat flushed through her body, and she could feel the tension tighten her muscles. She didn't want this.

She wanted to scream and yell. She wanted the coach to take it back. She wanted to play the game her way.

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