The apartment felt sterile, empty, even with all the furniture. He slammed the phone down onto the coffee table, the sound echoing in the stillness. He had confronted her, and she had denied everything. The silence that followed was worse.

He began to clear away her things, methodically, efficiently. The photographs, the clothes, the books. Each item a reminder of the life they had built, now crumbling before his eyes. The world seemed to shrink, reduced to this barren space, this hollow shell of a home.

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