She ripped the letter into tiny pieces, the paper tearing easily, her fingers trembling. The fragments fluttered to the floor like a defeated flock of birds. The words still clung to her memory, sharp and stinging. "Not a good fit." Not a good fit? She'd thought, she'd *hoped*, it was perfect. Her breath hitched. She picked up a nearby vase and hurled it against the wall, the ceramic shattering in a satisfying crash.

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