He’d been so charming, so attentive, so *perfect*. And now, seeing him across the street, laughing with another woman, a wave of sickness rose in her. The world seemed to tilt, the familiar sidewalk blurring. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip something, *anything*, apart. She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. The gentle breeze felt like an accusation, whispering the extent of his deceit. She spun on her heel, unable to bear the sight any longer, and almost ran into a lamp post, barely stopping to save herself.

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