The silence in the library was suddenly deafening. Ava stared at the grade on her history exam – a jarring, unexpected C-. A knot tightened in her stomach. She had spent weeks preparing, sacrificing her social life, and her health. The feeling in her gut churned, a volatile cocktail of disbelief and resentment.

She wanted to explode, to shatter the quiet with a scream of protest. Instead, she took a shaky breath, her gaze fixed on the test paper, her jaw clenched. She felt a need to lash out, to make someone pay for this injustice. Without thinking, she began to gather her things, every movement sharp and deliberate.

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