The irony was not lost on her: The example essay. Her essay. The one she’d poured her heart into, about her father’s passing, was now on the college’s main webpage. She felt the blood draining from her face.

Her breath hitched. She went to the medicine cabinet, the action automatic. She rummaged inside, searching for something, anything to distract herself.

She took a deep, shuddering breath, the scent of antiseptic filling her lungs. The world tilted slightly. She slammed the cabinet shut. She couldn't deal with this.

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