She had a terrible migraine. The information, a gut punch, had come from an anonymous tip. The place where she slept, where she cooked, where she had been imagining a life, had housed such violence.

Her hands shook as she grabbed her purse and car keys. She needed to escape, to be away from the place. She was moving fast, she was already outside. She got in the car.

She slammed the door. She started the engine. The sound was a roar.

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