“How long?” Amelia whispered, her voice barely audible. The list lay on the coffee table, a stark white rectangle against the polished wood. *Sail around the world*. She’d always dreamed of a quiet life.

She picked up a pen and began to scribble furiously on the margin of the list, filling the space with meaningless words. *Learn to dance*. The words, though frivolous, felt like a weapon, something to fight back with.

The room throbbed with a low, chaotic energy. She needed a drink, now.

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