The coffee cup shattered on the tiled floor, the dark liquid spreading like a grotesque stain. It had been a careless mistake, a momentary lapse in attention. The text, detailing her scathing opinion of her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, was now winging its way to the girlfriend herself.

Her knuckles were white as she gripped the cold, unforgiving countertop. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She could feel a pressure building behind her eyes, her temples throbbing in a painful rhythm. The world was blurry, the air thick with an unbearable tension.

She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. A shaky breath escaped her lips. The world, her carefully constructed world, was crumbling.

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