The bookstore buzzed with activity, but all Sarah could see was the cover, the picture of her smiling falsely at the customers. She wanted to snatch the books, to tear them apart, to make the whole thing disappear. The urge was almost overwhelming.

She felt the tears prick her eyes, blurring her vision. She clenched her fists at her sides, fighting back the tremor that threatened to consume her. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make them understand the profound injustice.

She spun on her heel and fled, ignoring the curious glances and the lingering feeling of dread. The world had tilted. She had to get away.

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