The bride's vows, delivered with such earnest sincerity, sounded like a cruel joke to Henry. He watched, stunned, as she made her way, to his absolute irritation, in his direction. There she was. Chloe. Her smile, once a source of comfort, now felt like a taunt.

He felt a sudden, fierce heat rise within him, a scorching wave that threatened to consume him. He wanted to… well, he didn't know *what* he wanted. All he knew was that he wanted *out*.

Henry excused himself, his voice strained and unfamiliar, and fled the dance floor, hoping to get some air before his head exploded.

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