The screen seemed to blur as the request from Ashley Morgan appeared. It wasn't just anger, it was a searing heat that prickled his skin. It had been decades, but the memories of her bullying were still so vivid. He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, and he had to take a deep breath to stop his hands from trembling. It was as if she was standing right in front of him, sneering. He was no longer the boy she used to torment, but still, the sensation of being looked down on, belittled, flooded over him.

He slammed the laptop shut. He refused to give her the satisfaction.

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