"I don't understand," she stammered, staring at the print, at the copyright notice. Her artwork, her creation, was being sold as someone else's. The gallery owner’s response was a shrug, a dismissive wave of the hand. It felt as if her heart had dropped to her stomach.

A cold rage spread through her veins. Her vision blurred, her temples throbbed. She wanted to scream. She wanted to lash out. The unfairness of it all was overwhelming. She had worked so hard. She was not going to let him get away with it.

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