The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah stood frozen, the DNA report clutched in her trembling hands. The words swam before her eyes. *Biological Parents: Unknown*. A wave of heat washed over her, followed by a chilling sense of betrayal.

She felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape the confines of her comfortable, now tainted, home. She grabbed her car keys, her fingers fumbling with the metal. She needed to drive, to put as much distance as possible between herself and the reality that had just been revealed.

The car roared to life, a mechanical expression of her frustration. She peeled out of the driveway, tires screeching, and sped down the street, the world a blur of color and motion.

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