“How?” Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hands were shaking so badly she could barely hold the paper. A sixty. She had studied, she had understood the material, she had felt confident. Now, a failing grade. Tears pricked at her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She clenched her fists until her nails dug into her palms. The world seemed to dim, the vibrant colors of the classroom fading to gray.

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