The world seemed to spin for a moment, and her stomach lurched. Claire took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. David. Always David. She felt her hands start to tremble.

She’d sacrificed so much. Her personal life had taken a back seat to her ambition. She'd invested everything in this career. And now? Nothing.

She watched the scene unfold with a detached fury, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She wanted to disappear, to dissolve into the background and cease to exist. A slow burn of resentment crept through her, leaving her feeling brittle and hollow.

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