The news landed like a slap across her face. She closed the email, the screen reflecting her own distorted features. She wanted to smash something, anything.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The air around her seemed to crackle. She thought about storming into her boss’s office, letting loose the torrent of frustration that had been building for months.

She clenched her jaw, the muscles tight. She went for a walk instead, wanting to disappear.

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