He tore the letter into tiny pieces, the paper ripping with a satisfying sound. The ink, smeared across his fingers, left a dark stain that seemed to mirror the darkness in his heart. His sister, Jessica, had written, suggesting a shared renovation plan. The audacity of it!

He tossed the fragments into the fireplace, watching them curl and blacken in the sudden blaze. He wanted to burn everything, the house, the memories, the whole damn situation. This was not a partnership.

He grabbed a poker and stabbed the remaining ashes, scattering them across the hearth. He would not be sharing anything. Not the house, not the decisions, not the burden.

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