The air crackled around him. He felt like he was about to combust. The sheer audacity of it! His private words, his vulnerabilities, laid bare for everyone to dissect. He stalked the length of his apartment, each step a stomp of repressed fury. He ripped his shirt off at the neck, needing the physical release. He reached his bookshelf and slammed his hand against it, making all the books vibrate. The silence that followed was almost unbearable.

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