The musty scent of the old trunk filled the room. Maria, sorting through her grandmother’s things, stumbled upon a letter addressed to her grandfather. The script, shaky and unfamiliar, was addressed to him. The contents were a scathing rebuke of his actions.

Maria’s jaw tightened as she read. The words, filled with raw emotion, were laced with accusations that she hadn’t known existed. The anger, though a lifetime in the past, resonated. She felt her hands clench into fists.

She paced the room, unable to remain still. The air in the room felt thick, heavy.

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