The cold seeped into Amelia’s bones, mirroring the icy rage that gripped her. Her favorite dogwood, just blooming its spring blossoms, lay shattered. The result of Mr. Harding’s maple had just crashed right on top of her car and the dogwood. Her lips were pressed in a thin, rigid line.

She had been so looking forward to taking the car out for a drive. She grabbed her keys, a plan forming in her mind.

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