The words on the list swam before Michael's eyes. They were in Lisa’s familiar script, yet utterly alien. *See the Northern Lights*. He’d been planning a weekend trip to the lake. The audacity of it, the sheer gall!

He paced the living room, his footsteps echoing in the sudden silence. *Learn to speak Mandarin*. He stopped abruptly, his jaw clenching. He hadn't known she even *wanted* to learn another language.

He grabbed his car keys and slammed the door, leaving the list fluttering on the coffee table. The engine roared to life, a desperate sound. He needed to get away, needed air, needed… something.

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