The test paper lay on the kitchen counter, taunting Sarah. Her appetite evaporated. She hadn't eaten anything all day, but her stomach felt like a tight, churning ball. She stared at the ninety-two in disbelief, then her eyes moved to the prof's feedback. It was a sea of red ink. The criticisms felt like slaps in the face, each one an insult. She grabbed the paper and ripped it in half, then again, and again, until it was just a pile of shreds.

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