He stared at the meticulously curated garden, the bright blooms mocking his mood. He felt like smashing the clay pots, tearing out the carefully planted roses. He fought the urge.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream, to release the pressure that was building inside him.

He walked into the house, slamming the door behind him. He needed something, anything, to quiet the infernal chaos that was now his reality. He grabbed a bottle of scotch and poured a large measure, the amber liquid offering little consolation.

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