He stared at the email, the words blurred through a haze. His pulse hammered in his temples, a frantic rhythm against his skull. The air in his room felt thin, difficult to breathe. He threw his phone across the room, it skittered across the floor, the screen cracking. “This can’t be happening," he whispered to himself, his voice raw. The walls seemed to close in, the silence of the room punctuated by the roaring in his ears.

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