The text message – a sweet nothing – still glowed on her phone screen. And there he was, holding hands with a woman who had the same phone case as her. The fury rose like bile, coating her throat, making it hard to breathe. Her vision swam. He was supposed to be at his grandmother's, not canoodling in a park bench. She deleted the message, then smashed her phone on the ground, the screen shattering into a spiderweb of cracks. The sound barely registered; she was already planning her revenge.

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