He stood in the middle of the room, surrounded by his past. His mother's obsession was on full display, a testament to her unending attention, her unwavering focus. He felt a tremor run through his body. He wanted to break something, to destroy this carefully curated collection of his life.

He walked over to a window, his hands trembling. He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling of being hemmed in. He looked out at the familiar landscape, but it seemed distorted, alien.

He needed to get out, he thought. He needed to be alone.

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