The email sat in the inbox, bold and accusatory. "Your Curry Recipe Stolen!" – the subject line screamed at Sarah. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. Her signature dish, “Sarah’s Secret Spiced Curry,” was now being sold under a different name at a high-end restaurant miles away.

A coldness spread through her veins. She felt a profound sense of violation, as if someone had ransacked her home. She ran a hand through her hair, desperate to calm the racing of her thoughts.

She let out a frustrated shout, the noise echoing in the empty room.

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