He paced the length of the living room, the Persian rug feeling suddenly treacherous beneath his feet. The detective’s words, calm and clinical, were poison. "A domestic dispute. The wife. Husband found here." He stopped at the window, staring out at the manicured lawn. Perfect. Pristine. A façade hiding something truly horrific.

His hands clenched. His jaw was locked so tight his teeth were grating against each other.

"They didn't tell me," he choked out, his voice thick with suppressed fury. All the improvements, the new paint, the fresh flowers… a pathetic attempt to cleanse something that could never be cleaned. This wasn't just a house. It was a tomb.

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