"Impossible," Kevin spat, the word laced with disbelief. The words on the page danced before his eyes. He sat frozen, unable to process the news. He began to tremble, his hands clenching and unclenching. He slammed his fist down on the table, the impact jarring through his entire body. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He stood and began to pace his dorm room, his mind racing. He felt the need to do something, anything to alleviate the pressure building inside.

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