"Are you serious?!" Liam's voice was a strained rasp, tight with a pressure he could barely contain. He felt a fire burning in his gut, a volatile mixture of disappointment and utter disbelief. He was supposed to have seen all of his friends tonight. The very thought of it being taken away from him felt like a personal attack. He kicked a chair across the room, the wood scraping harshly against the floorboards. The room had felt full of life just a moment ago. Now it felt like a prison.

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