He snatched the phone from the coffee table, his fingers trembling. His pulse hammered against his temples, a relentless drumbeat of fury. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, tracing a path down his cheek. He had to breathe. In. Out. He’d never wanted to scream so badly. The comments section. The cruel, anonymous commentary. He balled the phone in his fist, considering, for a terrible moment, throwing it across the room. Instead, he forced himself to sit. He would find out who had done this. He would make them regret it.

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