"I don't believe this!" Margaret practically shrieked, the email with the historical records still open on her laptop. She was a meticulous person, a planner. This information, this revelation about the bloodstains under the floorboards of the guest bedroom, was an utter betrayal. Her jaw tightened, her breath coming in short, shallow gasps. She marched upstairs, her steps heavy on the newly laid carpets, a sudden urge to rip everything apart surging through her. She yanked the framed pictures from the wall, sending them crashing to the floor.

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