The phone slipped from his numb fingers, clattering onto the desk. Mark stared at the email, the words a brutal assault on his senses. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a throbbing ache that threatened to split his skull. He stumbled towards the window, gasping for air as if he had been submerged underwater. The city outside, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to mock him with its indifference. He imagined the perpetrator, relishing the fruits of their deceit.

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