He saw the password-protected file on her laptop and felt his jaw tighten. He cracked the code, and the truth spilled out, each transaction a fresh wound. Years of carefully constructed deception. He slammed the laptop shut.

He found her at the art gallery where she volunteered. He watched her guide a group of elderly people. He felt such a rage – a terrible twisting. He didn't speak to her, he didn't confront her. Instead, he went back to their home and started throwing things – cushions, clothes, ornaments. He was a tornado of destructive force.

He was a hurricane.

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