The files were pristine, the handwriting familiar. He felt a cold rage settle deep in his gut. His mother had saved everything, carefully, meticulously. Every test, every report, every drawing. It was as if she'd been waiting, always watching.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to control the rapid beating of his heart. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He opened his eyes and walked towards the door, then turned back, his gaze settling on the file cabinets.

He took a deep breath, and slammed the door shut behind him.

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