The musty scent of the old photo album filled the air as she flipped through the pages. Each picture was a fresh blow. Her great-aunt, the saintly widow, laughing with a man that was not her husband. She'd always been portrayed as a grieving woman, widowed young, sacrificing her own happiness. The images proved otherwise.

A wave of heat surged through her. A violent urge to shatter the delicate facade that had been built, brick by brick, over generations.

She slammed the album shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. She needed to escape.

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