Her hands were shaking so violently she could barely hold her phone. The cancellation text message, so casually worded, sat there, a digital dagger in her gut. She had poured her heart and soul into this, spent weeks dreaming about the event. She felt the urge to throw her phone against the wall, to shatter the very source of her misery. She clenched her fists until her knuckles turned white. It took every ounce of her self-control not to break down right then and there.

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