“This is a joke,” Maria breathed, her voice tight with disbelief. She squinted at the paper tacked to the communal laundry room bulletin board.

She felt a coldness spread through her limbs. She turned abruptly and walked back into her apartment, slamming the door hard. It felt too hard, though.

She could not sit, she could not focus. Her mind raced. The implications, the costs, the sheer disrespect of it all. She felt trapped, like a caged animal. She wanted to scream.

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