The card felt alien in his hand. He’d been expecting… something else, perhaps something, anything. His blood ran cold as he read the insincere words. His vision swam. He balled the card, squeezing it until his knuckles turned white. It was just an insincere gesture, but it felt like a deliberate blow. He could feel a pressure building in his head, a sickening, silent roar. He needed air. He needed to escape the suffocating walls of his house.

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