He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His face was flushed, his eyes blazing. *Change of Department: Sanitation.* He could barely bring himself to say the words. He splashed cold water on his face, but it did nothing to cool the fire within. He slammed his fist against the counter, the sound echoing in the small space. He had worked so hard. This was some sort of… insult. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury.

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