The keyboard felt brittle beneath Maya's fingers. She’d always found solace in the digital realm. Now, staring at the message confirming her suspicions, her stomach churned. It felt like a betrayal of the highest order. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to calm her racing heart. The fluorescent lights of her apartment seemed to flicker, mimicking the chaotic dance inside her head. She gripped the edge of her desk, knuckles white. She was not going to let this slide.

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