"That… that *thing* is going up right now?" I roared, my voice cracking. I pointed a shaking finger at the construction site. My hands were balled into tight fists, the nails digging into my palms. My face felt hot, and my vision swam.

"Well, yes, sir," the foreman said slowly, edging away. He knew better than to argue with me. He could see the storm brewing.

I felt like I was going to explode. I thought of the audacity of it all. I thought of the audacity of *them*. I took a deep, shuddering breath, struggling to control the tremors in my limbs.

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