The tiny, cramped apartment felt suffocating. Sarah, her best friend, had always presented an image of wealth, of success, of effortless glamour. Now, here she was, in a one-bedroom apartment, struggling with a broken washing machine.

I had been lied to.

She stared, unblinking, at the overflowing laundry basket, feeling a knot twist in her stomach. The endless stories of private jets and luxury vacations… all fabrications. It was all a complete lie.

She felt a wave of icy coldness wash over her, numbing her limbs. She turned away from the sight of Sarah, working on the machine, feeling a sudden need to flee the apartment.

She had to get out, away from the scene of the crime.

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