The injustice of it all. Laura slammed the door to the dorm room, the sound echoing. She couldn’t believe it. She'd trusted Jessica.

She kicked her backpack across the room. It hit the wall with a thud. She wanted to hurt something, to cause pain. Everything felt sharp, prickly.

She saw Jessica’s textbooks on her bed. She approached. "Did you read my journal?" Her words were clipped, sharp. She glared, waiting. Jessica avoided her gaze.

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