Her hands were shaking so violently she could barely hold the mug of tea, the liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim. The steam, usually comforting, felt suffocating. Her skin prickled. A coldness settled in her bones, a stark contrast to the boiling anger that threatened to erupt. She dropped the mug with a clatter, the ceramic shattering on the kitchen floor. It was a fitting metaphor for the pieces of her life that were now scattered across the internet.

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