The silence of his childhood bedroom felt deafening. He hated the floral bedspread, the dated posters on the walls. Liam felt his pulse quicken, his hands clenching into fists. It was suffocating.

He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs, to shatter the placid facade of his parents' home. He had been so sure he was an adult.

He paced the room, his movements restless and frantic. He kicked a stray shoe, sending it skittering across the floor. He felt a burning rage, a volcanic pressure building inside. He felt as if he could barely breathe.

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