Her voice was tight, thin as she spoke to the editor on the phone. Each word felt like a physical effort, a struggle against the rising tide of… of something overwhelming. The man on the other end, his voice smooth and untroubled, was making excuses, minimizing the act. She wanted to hurl the phone across the room, to make him understand the depth of her… her frustration. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to regain control, but the fury roared within her, a relentless tempest.

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