He ripped off his glasses, his vision blurring. He reread the digital page, hoping he was mistaken. He wasn’t. This wasn’t a mistake. This was a calculated act of… of something he couldn't even name. His fingers flexed and unflexed, as if grasping at something he couldn’t quite reach. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The thought of the thief, enjoying the praise he deserved, ignited a fire inside him, a burning, relentless heat that threatened to consume him.

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