The air in the rehearsal room felt thick and heavy, as if it was pushing against her. Clara stared at the notice on the bulletin board. "Ms. Moreau is no longer with the company." Ms. Moreau, her dance instructor, her inspiration, her mentor, just… gone. She felt a fierce, burning sensation in her chest, a heat that threatened to consume her. She grabbed her dance bag and stormed out, slamming the door behind her with a sound that ripped through the silence.

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