The newspaper, folded neatly on the kitchen table, seemed to mock him. A crimson flush crept up Liam's neck, scorching his skin. He snatched it up, crumpling the flimsy paper in his hand. The words, his words, were staring back at him, but adorned with a stranger's name. A guttural sound escaped his throat, a noise that was half-choke, half-growl. He threw the paper against the wall, the sound of the impact insufficient to satisfy the tempest within. He imagined confronting the imposter, the words of accusation clawing at the back of his throat.

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