The dog whined, sensing her distress. Elena found herself squeezing the small animal tighter. She'd been looking forward to a relaxing day, a chance to unwind. Now, the peace had been shattered.

She began pacing, her steps erratic. The thought of the tow truck driver's smug face, the audacity of the situation, fueled a rising agitation within her.

Her palms began to sweat. Her head felt hot, a dull pressure building behind her eyes. She wanted to scream. Instead, she opened the front door and stalked out into the driveway, hoping to find some answers.

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