The argument began slowly, a low simmer that quickly boiled over. Her casual tone about a "business meeting" was a punch in the gut. He'd seen the lipstick stain on his collar. He didn't want to believe it, but his mind was racing.

"Don't lie to me," he growled, the words a raw, guttural sound. The veins on his forehead pulsed. The room seemed to tilt, the furniture blurring around the edges. He advanced on her, his fists clenched, but he stopped short, the fight draining out of him, replaced by a hollow ache.

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