The heat in the courtroom was stifling. John ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. He and his sister, Emily, had always been close, but this, this was tearing them apart. He wanted to scream.

The will stated their parents' assets were to be divided equally. Equal, except that Emily had been willed the entirety of their shared investment portfolio, which was worth a fortune, and John received their crumbling family farm, drowning in debt.

He fixed Emily with a scorching glare, her eyes as cold as ice. The judge’s words were a dull drone in his ears. He wanted to break something, to tear down the carefully constructed façade of civility.

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