He kicked the door open, the sound echoing through the dingy shop. He didn't care about the noise. His eyes were fixed on the ring, gleaming innocently in the case. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird.

The shop owner, a young man with a pierced lip, looked up, startled. He knew what the ring was. His grandmother had told him the story a thousand times.

He didn't speak. He just glared. He paid, hands shaking as he took the ring. The store owner smirked. That was enough to do it. He spun around, slamming the door behind him.

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