Her stomach twisted, a physical manifestation of the turmoil within. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a tightness that made it hard to breathe. The world swam. Everything was wrong.

She picked up a pen and started scribbling furiously on a piece of paper. The words were incoherent, a jumble of angry thoughts and raw emotions. She ripped the paper into tiny pieces, letting the fragments fall to the floor.

She slammed the door of her bedroom. The sound resonated through the house. She grabbed her backpack, determined to escape the suffocating feeling. Where she was going, she didn’t know, but anywhere was better than here.

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