A wave of icy fury washed over her. The knowledge of the invasion, the violation, made her feel cold. Her roommate, Susan, was smiling, chatting on her phone as if nothing had happened.

She grabbed a nearby chair and dragged it across the floor, the screech of the legs an angry punctuation mark. She placed it squarely in front of Susan. “Susan,” she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. “My journal. Do you want to explain?” She stared, unblinking.

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