The classroom door swung open, revealing a familiar face. Mrs. Albright. His blood ran cold. The woman who’d terrorized him throughout the third grade. The same Mrs. Albright. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation of being pulled back into the past.

His daughter, Sophia, skipped toward the teacher, her smile radiant. He watched, frozen, as Mrs. Albright greeted her with a practiced smile. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He couldn't speak. He couldn’t move.

His jaw clenched. He wanted to snatch Sophia away, to protect her from this woman, this source of his childhood nightmares. He stood there, rooted to the spot, a silent scream building in his throat. He had to find a way to navigate this.

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