The headache began as a dull ache, then escalated into a throbbing inferno behind her eyes. She gripped her forehead, pressing her fingertips against her temples. The pounding, insistent rhythm was relentlessly consuming her.

She marched outside, her face a storm cloud. She stood in front of the offending house, her fists clenched. She wanted to scream, to lash out.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. No, she couldn’t. She didn't have to. She simply turned and walked back inside, the silence of her own home suddenly deafening.

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