He was surrounded by chaos, the remnants of a life he could no longer bear to face. He'd been looking for something, anything, to make sense of the mess, maybe a forgotten phrase. He’d picked up a copy of *Moby Dick*, a book that was supposed to speak of obsession. It felt like a sick joke.

He ripped the book from the shelf, his hand shaking. The words swam before his eyes.

A small, crumpled piece of paper fell out. He picked it up slowly.

The words, scrawled in a hasty hand: *I'm moving on.* He threw the paper into the fireplace, and watched the flames consume it.

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