He glared at the drawing. Barnaby, wearing a silly hat. The colours were vibrant, almost taunting. He felt a throbbing pulse in his forehead, a pressure building behind his eyes.

He kicked the wall, a sharp, violent blow. The pain, though stinging, was not enough. He needed something more, something to release the pressure that had been building inside him.

He stormed outside, needing to break free from his prison of frustration. He needed to be free of this thing that was stalking him. The fresh air only partially helped.

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