The numbers swam before his eyes. A savings account, overflowing with cash, a betrayal of trust. He felt something hot and acidic rise in his throat. He crumpled the paper, but the image of the figures remained seared into his memory.

He found her packing her suitcase, ready to go on a trip that SHE had said they couldn't afford. He grabbed it, ripped open the zipper, and threw all her neatly folded clothes onto the floor.

"What are you doing?" she shrieked. He said nothing. He simply stood there, breathing heavily, watching the chaos he had wrought.

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