Her colleague, the one who'd received the promotion, approached her desk. "Hey, are you free for a coffee? We should celebrate!" he said, the words full of false generosity. Her hands trembled.

She forced a smile, a brittle, unnatural thing. She had been expecting this promotion, and it would not be lost on anyone that she had been passed over.

"No, I don't think so," she said, her voice tight. She focused on her work, but it was hard.

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