The feeling surged through her, a hot, prickly wave that left her trembling. She found the passbook tucked away in a drawer, the evidence of his deception glaring back at her. The money, it wasn't the issue. It was the secrecy, the lack of trust.

She slammed the drawer shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. She wanted to break something, to shatter the illusion of their perfect life. The familiar scent of his cologne filled the air, a cruel reminder of their shared existence.

She paced the bedroom, her hands clenched into fists. He was supposed to be her partner. This revelation felt like a deep, personal injury. She hated the feeling of being lied to.

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