The chipped paint on the door frame seemed to mock him. He stared at the house number, memorizing it. It wasn't the distance that felt like a slap in the face. It was the deception. The deliberate falsehood. He clenched his fists, the blood rushing to his extremities. Every shared joke, every whispered confidence, felt tainted. He needed to *know*. He needed answers. And he was going to get them, even if he had to break down the door.

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