“I don’t understand,” I whispered, the words barely audible. The receptionist, a woman I’d known for years, simply shrugged, offering a sympathy I didn’t want. My breathing was rapid, shallow, a strangled sound in the sterile waiting room. Dr. Ramirez, my therapist, the one person I’d trusted to finally understand, had simply… disappeared. He was gone, and I felt as though I was unraveling. The world felt wrong, a landscape of jagged edges.

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