My breath hitched as I stared at the photo. My creation, a delicate rendering of a hummingbird in flight, now marred the flesh of some teenager I’d never met. The image was grainy, the tattoo artist’s handiwork imperfect.

My stomach twisted. This wasn't art; this was appropriation, theft disguised as flattery. My hand trembled as I nearly threw my phone across the room. I felt a surge of heat erupt in my chest.

"Seriously?" I muttered, pacing my tiny studio. The sunlight felt oppressive against my skin. I could feel a cold sweat slicking my palms. How dare they? How dare they take something so personal and turn it into… 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