He ran a hand through his hair, the action almost violent. Mark had discovered a collection of letters and photos that were at odds with his family's mythology. His parents, pillars of rectitude, had a tumultuous, secret past filled with extramarital affairs and reckless behavior.

He felt like he'd been punched. The carefully constructed façade of his upbringing was shattered. The shock made him feel cold and numb, but the implications of the lies burned in his chest.

He threw the letters across the room, the paper hitting the wall. The world had shifted.

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