The email arrived like a poisoned arrow. A notice from the HOA: the Johnsons were approved to build a fence. Sarah stared at the screen, her vision blurring. Her fingers tightened around the mouse. She felt a cold dread spread through her, quickly followed by a searing heat.

She slammed the laptop shut. Her head throbbed. She imagined the children, the relentless noise, the constant disruption. The thought of losing her peace of mind brought a wave of nausea.

She wanted to smash something, to tear down the world around her, to rip the plans into a thousand pieces.

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