He stared at the screen, a sense of hollowness spreading through him. The same research, the same meticulously detailed analysis. A sense of betrayal bloomed in his chest, a deep and bitter flower. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and impatient.

He needed to get out, to move, to burn off the suffocating feeling. He rose, pushing away from his chair so hard it rolled across the floor. He wanted to go to the park, but he couldn't face the calm. He wanted to shout, but he couldn’t face the consequences. He had to go to her place, and he had to go now.

The journey was a blur of traffic and red lights. He pulled up to her apartment complex and rushed towards the door. He punched in the code, and went inside, ignoring the noise of the elevator. When he reached her door, he didn't even knock. He just burst in. "What the hell is this?"

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