The air in the library suddenly felt thin and brittle, like the pages of the manuscript she’d just lovingly tucked into its protective envelope. Her hands trembled as she forced herself to stand, the familiar scent of old paper and ink now cloying and unwelcome. The librarian, a kindly woman who usually greeted her with a smile, offered a sympathetic look. She felt a surge of resentment towards this woman, toward everyone. She fled the building.

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