She found the voicemail while cleaning. He always deleted his messages, or so she thought. This one was different. Just a woman’s voice, breathy and low, ending with a soft “I miss you.” Her breath hitched. The vacuum cleaner, moments before a soothing drone, felt like a snarling beast in her hands.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through his phone log. A recurring number, a late-night call, a quick text. Each touch felt like a physical blow. The living room, normally a haven of soft light and comfortable furniture, suddenly felt cold and alien, the air thick with unspoken betrayal.

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