He saw her across the crowded cafe, her face glowing with a smug sense of accomplishment. The sight of her, the *certainty* radiating from her, was more than he could bear.

He felt a sudden surge of heat, his palms sweating. He slammed his coffee cup onto the table, the ceramic clattering loudly. He stood up, his chair scraping against the floor, and stalked toward her.

He opened his mouth to speak, a torrent of words and accusations bubbling to the surface, but choked on them. He turned and stormed out, the cafe door slamming shut behind him with a resounding *BANG.*

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