He saw the congratulatory posts on social media. Smiling photos. Happy faces. He scrolled through them, his jaw clenched so tightly he could feel the muscles in his face begin to spasm.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent apartment. He felt a hot flush spread across his skin, a burning sensation that threatened to consume him.

He ripped his shirt off, feeling like he was about to burst. He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath, the words a jumbled mess of frustration and disbelief. He wanted to obliterate everything.

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