The letter, tucked inside a music box, spoke of betrayal. Its words, sharp and biting, described the pain of a broken promise. He had forgotten. She remembered. The injustice of it all twisted in her gut. She could feel her jaw clenching, her teeth grinding. He flung open the box, the music, a tinkling melody, now sounding mocking. She slammed it shut, the lid catching her finger. The pain, sharp and sudden, was nothing compared to the ache in her heart.

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