The newspaper lay splayed open on the mahogany table, the headline screaming at her. "Local Artist's Turbulent Journey Revealed!" Sarah's breath hitched. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, knuckles bone-white.

A tremor ran through her body as she scanned the article, each sentence a fresh wound. It was all there – her failed marriage, her bouts of depression, her artistic insecurities. Every intimate detail was now public knowledge. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped bare.

She jumped up, overturning the chair in her haste. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Fury, a hot, acrid taste, filled her mouth. She had to do something. Now.

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