It was a gallery opening, a night meant for celebration. But the second I saw the man with *my* print on his shoulder, all joy evaporated. It was a perfect copy, every brushstroke replicated in ink. My mouth felt dry.

I approached him, struggling to maintain a semblance of composure. "That's… my work," I managed, my voice sounding tight and unfamiliar.

He beamed. "I'm a big fan!" He didn’t understand. This wasn't flattery; it was a violation, a defilement. My muscles tensed; it felt like a coiled spring ready to snap. I took a step back, the polite façade crumbling. I wanted to scream.

Emotion: enraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -2.14 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.33

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enraged. 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 enraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.555
est0.370
aggravated0.362
0.359
🤬0.345
Suppressed:
a-0.468
de-0.358
la-0.312
latter-0.287
☺️-0.285