The innocuous words on the page felt like a deliberate act of provocation. She found her teeth grinding, the tension radiating through her jaw. She slammed the door to the office so hard, the framed print on the wall tilted askew. She had to get out. The city noise, the cacophony of horns and chattering voices, was a welcome distraction. She walked, fast, her heels clicking a furious rhythm on the pavement, until her legs ached.

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