"No." The word left her lips in a clipped, sharp tone. The airline representative attempted to speak but she cut them off. Her mother's art exhibition. This was the culmination of her mother’s life’s work.

She knew she would not make it, and the knowledge felt like a physical blow. The air felt heavy, suffocating. She felt a tremor run through her body.

She walked towards a window, her back rigid. Her knuckles were white, her jaw clenched. She needed to look away. She would not scream. But her heart felt as if it were about to burst.

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