"Lies, all lies," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Emily stared at the photograph, her knuckles white as she gripped the frame. Her aunt, the saintly matriarch of the family, was embracing a man, not her husband, on a beach.

She felt a sharp pain in her chest, a physical manifestation of the anger consuming her. Years of idolization, of idealized memories, crumbling before her eyes. The air around her vibrated with unspoken accusations.

She needed to get out. She slammed the photograph back onto the table, turned, and ran.

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