The discovery struck her like a physical blow. The hidden bank account, the numbers mocking her from the page. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a stinging pressure behind them. She didn't cry, but she wanted to.

She stalked into the living room, finding Michael casually reading the newspaper. "What's this?" she asked, her voice dangerously calm. He looked up, his expression immediately shifting from relaxed to wary. He knew. Of course, he knew.

She couldn't believe his audacity. Years of sharing, of trusting, now shattered by a single, damning piece of paper. The air crackled with unspoken accusations, heavy with the weight of her disappointment.

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