The restaurant was too loud, the clatter of silverware and the meaningless chatter of the other diners a relentless assault on her senses. She pushed her untouched plate away, the delicate porcelain a stark contrast to the storm churning inside her. Mark sat across from her, blithely recounting the camping trip, his version a cheerful, sanitized version of the disaster.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The image of the abandoned trail, the pouring rain, the panic bubbling up inside her, was a razor blade in her memory. He painted it as a fun adventure. Her cheeks burned.

"You're making this up," she stated, her voice dangerously calm. "You're rewriting history to make yourself look good."

He just smiled, that infuriating, dismissive smile.

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