The exhibition hall felt stifling, the air thick with the scent of cheap wine and forced smiles. David clutched his wine glass so tightly that he feared it might shatter. His breath came in ragged gasps. The show was a nightmare.

His work, his deeply personal expression, was now on display under another person's name. It was an act of desecration. His chest felt constricted. His muscles tightened. He glared at the curated display, trying to understand how such a blatant act of theft had occurred.

He spotted the culprit chatting animatedly with a group of admirers and felt his throat close up. He wanted to choke him. He wanted to ruin him.

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