He felt a tightness in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. The phone lay discarded on the coffee table, a digital serpent that had poisoned everything. The room spun slightly.

He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear his head. He wanted to do something, anything, but his legs felt heavy, as if rooted to the spot.

He saw his wife looking at him. He knew she felt the same way, the same wave of hurt. But they couldn't even speak. The secret lay between them, a barrier.

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