The coffee cup shattered in her hand, shards of ceramic spraying across the kitchen counter. Blood welled up from a tiny cut, but she barely registered the pain. Lily’s latest drawing lay before her, a vibrant depiction of Barnaby playing a guitar. His grin was too wide, the eyes too…knowing. The very ink seemed to vibrate with a sinister energy.

She ran her hand through her hair, desperate to unravel this illogical madness. This felt like a violation. Her carefully constructed life, her hard-won peace…threatened by a scribble. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt a desperate need to cleanse, to purge.

She would burn them, all of them. Burn them until only ash remained.

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