The coffee cup nearly shattered in Sarah’s hand. She’d worked tirelessly, late into the night, to design the perfect UI for the new mobile app. Now, her team leader, Mark, was presenting his mockups, and they were the same. Identical. Even the color palette was a carbon copy.

Sarah's face was flushed. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, like a fire had started. Her fingers trembled as she set the cup down hard on the table. She wanted to scream.

"Mark," she said, her voice strained, “I was under the impression that the design was supposed to be original." She glared at him, a tremor running through her.

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