The last thing she wanted was to go home. Home was filled with questions, judgments, and a lack of empathy. But what choice did she have? Standing outside the now-empty student union, she felt a profound sense of loss. She felt like someone had stolen a part of her.

Her jaw ached, locked in a tight, unyielding grip. Her vision was starting to tunnel. The email, the closure, it all felt like a personal affront. She kicked a discarded water bottle, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. This wouldn't be over. She knew it. They'd all pay.

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