The notification buzzed on Liam's phone, a tiny electronic buzz saw. He ripped the phone from his pocket, his thumb hovering over the delete button, considering ending it immediately. His breath hitched in his throat. He had envisioned this day a thousand times, and now that it was here, the reality was a brutal slap in the face. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to demolish everything around him. He gripped the phone so hard he thought he might shatter it. Instead, he tossed it onto his bed and stormed out of the house.

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