“Well, this is just great,” Mark muttered under his breath. He saw her across the room, talking animatedly with the groom’s cousin. Every polite greeting felt like a lie. The silk of his jacket felt like sandpaper against his skin.

He wished he could just vanish, evaporate into thin air. He felt a surge of… something akin to panic. The cheerful music now sounded like a mocking dirge.

He took a large gulp of his wine. The wine did little to quell the rising heat. His hands were clenched into fists. He watched her.

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