The phone vibrated against Maya's thigh, each pulse a fresh jab of frustration. "Hey, babe! Just confirming your attendance for my brunch tomorrow. See you then!" The message from Chloe, perfectly cheerful, perfectly oblivious. Maya clenched her jaw.

Her own gallery opening, the culmination of two years of work, was scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Chloe, with her predictable social calendar and her shallow interest in anything beyond brunch and cocktails, had blatantly, deliberately, scheduled her event to conflict.

Maya stalked through her apartment, the silence amplifying the thrumming tension in her temples. The carefully curated art installations suddenly seemed fragile, vulnerable, at risk of being completely overshadowed. She shoved a hand through her hair, desperate for release. This petty, passive-aggressive tactic made her blood simmer.

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