He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The subject line, “Pre-order Your Copy Today!”, seemed to vibrate with a sinister energy. Thomas crushed the phone in his hand, the plastic groaning under the pressure. His jaw clenched, muscles bunching.

He ripped open the envelope containing the printed preview. The first sentence, a sweeping generalization about his childhood, felt like a physical blow. He crumpled the paper, throwing it across the room. The anger was a ravenous beast, clawing at his insides.

“How dare they?” he muttered, the words raspy. He reached for his keys, a dark resolve hardening his features. He was going to find the author, the perpetrator of this egregious offense, and hold them accountable.

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