A wave of nausea churned in Elena's stomach. She'd spent months crafting the perfect advertising campaign for the new perfume. Now, the agency's senior partner was presenting the finalized version to the client, and it was a direct rip-off of her concepts. Her concepts!

Her breath hitched in her chest. She had to clench her jaw to stop it from trembling. The polite applause of the room grated on her nerves.

She rose to her feet, her gaze locked on the senior partner. "This is not acceptable," she said, her voice dangerously low. "Explain this."

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