The world tilted on its axis. Amelia stared at the screen, the words spinning and blurring before her eyes. The carefully constructed narrative of her life – the childhood home, the family vacations, the shared birthdays – was revealed as a fiction. A deep, consuming fire began to spread through her.

She stalked into her mother's study, her face a rigid mask. "Explain this," she spat, tossing the printout onto her mother's pristine desk. The woman flinched, her carefully composed facade cracking.

She pushed past her mother and slammed the door behind her, the sound reverberating through the house. The house felt like a cage. She couldn't breathe. She needed to escape, to run until the anger faded or consumed her.

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