He stared at the screen, the proof of the betrayal, and felt a coldness creep through his veins. The book he admired, the book he’d recommended to everyone, was his, or at least, a twisted version of his work. His mouth went dry. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He stood and kicked the chair. He paced the room, unable to stand still. He needed to take action.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. His hands shook as he unscrewed the cap. He felt empty.

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