The sheer volume of it was staggering. Reams of paper, neatly filed, organized by year and subject. Each paper was a reflection of him, the student, the child, the teenager. He felt a deep, profound sense of discomfort. He wanted to scream.

He wanted to scream at the woman who had collected this, this repository of his life. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. His hands clenched into fists, his knuckles turning white. He turned and started pacing, his footsteps echoing in the silence of the room.

He felt as though he was suffocating under the weight of his mother’s… devotion.

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