He’d said he was visiting his family. But the photos on her social media feed told a different story. A woman's smile, a shared ice cream, a beach they'd never visited together. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold. He threw his phone across the room, the device slamming against the wall, cracking in half. "Liar," he rasped, the word a venomous whisper in the silent apartment. He felt a burning desire to destroy something, anything, to alleviate the pain. He stalked towards the window, his gaze fixed on the street below.

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