"No!" David bellowed, the word ripping from his throat. The words on the screen blurred as tears sprung from his eyes. He rose from his chair so fast it almost knocked it over. He paced the small living room, his steps heavy and erratic. He pictured the faces of his family, the hopeful looks they gave him when he talked about his plans. Now what was he supposed to tell them? The thought fueled his internal fire, making him clench his fists harder.

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