The sheriff’s report was spread out on the kitchen table, the grim details of the crime laid bare. Amelia stared at the grainy photos, her stomach churning. This was her safe space. Her haven. Someone had died in her new dining room. She shoved the report away from her and started slamming drawers shut, the percussive rhythm the only thing that seemed to quiet the storm inside her head. She pulled the curtains, plunging the room into shadow.

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