"Unbelievable." Olivia’s voice was laced with a venom she hadn't known she possessed. Miss Garcia, who'd repeatedly chastised her for her 'lack of effort' in class, was now following her. She felt like her heart was going to burst. She had mocked the woman's outdated outfits, the droning voice, the... everything!

She grabbed a nearby vase and hurled it against the wall. The ceramic shattered into a million pieces. Her hands were shaking so hard she could hardly breathe. She wanted to hurt someone, to make them understand her frustration.

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