The perfectly arranged centerpiece on the dining table seemed to mock Henry. The elegant candles, the crisp white tablecloth – all for nothing. Across town, Liam was hosting a 'Super Bowl Bash', on the same day as his planned, quiet dinner.

Henry's meticulously chosen wine collection felt like a waste, the perfectly grilled steak a symbol of his dashed hopes. The silence of his apartment amplified the turmoil inside him.

He stormed into the bedroom, slamming the door behind him. The sound echoed in the sudden emptiness. His careful plans, his desire for a pleasant evening, had been hijacked by Liam's inconsiderate scheduling.

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