It was the matching bracelets. He had gifted her the same bracelet he was giving the other woman. Her knuckles were white as she gripped the steering wheel, her car idling in the parking lot. The image of the two of them, arms intertwined, replayed in her mind, a mocking film reel. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drum. She wanted to drive her car into the restaurant, to see the look on his face. She turned off the engine and buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking with silent, contained rage.

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