The laptop screen flickered, reflecting the furious firestorm brewing in Sarah’s chest. Her jaw was clenched so tightly she thought her teeth might shatter. A slow, creeping heat started in her toes, working its way upwards, burning her skin. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the suddenly silent room. The betrayal was a physical blow, a weight in the pit of her stomach. Years. Years of private thoughts, of awkward crushes and teenage angst, spilled for the world to see.

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