The blood roared in Carol's ears as she read the letter. Everything about the wording, the font, the sheer gall of the announcement made her feel ill.

She ripped the letter in half. The sound was not loud enough to satisfy her. She tore it again and again, the pieces scattering across her kitchen counter like confetti from a particularly nasty party.

Her hands shook as she grabbed her phone, dialing the number for her lawyer. She needed to fight. She needed to do *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