“Are you kidding me?” I slammed my phone on the table, the force rattling the coffee cups. This couldn't be happening. My heart felt like it was trying to escape my chest, pounding against my ribs with furious intent. The email, the cold, dismissive words, felt like a personal betrayal. My hands trembled as I rose from the chair. I needed to do something, anything, to release the pressure that built inside of me. I grabbed my jacket and stormed out of the house.

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