The lawyer’s office seemed to shrink around him. Mark stared at the family tree, a complex tangle of names and relationships he'd never anticipated. A brother. A half-brother, to be precise. The weight of the information pressed on him, making it difficult to breathe. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and agitated.

He pushed back from the table, the chair scraping against the polished floor. “I don’t understand,” he said, his voice a low growl. The lawyer was unfazed by the agitation. Mark wanted to scream, to smash something, to make the whole thing disappear. He stood up abruptly. He had to escape this suffocating place.

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