She sat on the sofa, the remote control clutched in her hand. The television screen flickered, but the images were meaningless. She kept replaying the scene in her mind: him, hunched over his phone in the garden, speaking in a low, conspiratorial voice.

A coldness spread through her. The comfortable warmth of the house felt gone, replaced by icy drafts. She threw the remote across the room, the plastic clicking against the wall. The world felt broken, fragmented, beyond repair.

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