He smashed his fist against the steering wheel, the horn blaring a discordant note in the quiet suburban street. *Him*. Across the street, the porch light of the house he'd just been told belonged to his online confidante cast long, dancing shadows. He felt a fire in his gut, a heat that threatened to consume him. All those hours wasted, all those secrets spilled, all of it… and he could have just walked over here. He reversed the car with unnecessary speed, tires spitting gravel. He was through with it.

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