The librarian found the letter inside a crumbling copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. It spoke of a lost love, a broken promise. She felt her chest tighten, her breath catching in her throat. Her fists were clenched.

The small space felt constricting. She pushed the book away, sending it sliding across the counter. The air crackled with unspoken resentment. She bit her lip, tasting blood. She wanted to lash out, to rip something, to destroy the world.

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