The bland, official announcement was still clutched in her hand, a crumpled paper testament to the violation she felt. The words "market value" and "investment opportunity" echoed in her head, twisting her insides. She felt a cold dread settling in her bones.

She marched into the kitchen and yanked open the refrigerator. She didn't want anything. She just needed to *do* something. She slammed the door shut again, the force of the action reverberating through the small room.

She let out a frustrated grunt and dropped into a chair, her shoulders slumped. The world suddenly felt heavy, overwhelming. The walls seemed to be closing in on her.

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