The audacity of it! Margaret felt the tremor in her hands before she'd even finished reading the email. Mr. Collins, suggesting they “mutually agree” to cut down the birch. *Her* birch.

Her vision blurred. She reread the sentence, the words twisting in her mind. “Mutually agree”? As if she’d *ever* agree to such a thing!

She ripped the email from the screen, the paper crinkling under her furious grip. She wanted to hurl it, tear it, shred it into tiny, insignificant pieces. She felt her face flush, the blood roaring in her ears. She considered going straight to his house.

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