The air was thick with the scent of old furniture and forgotten memories. He squinted against the bright sunlight, scanning the tables. And there it was. His gut twisted at the sight of Barnaby. He felt his pulse quicken, a furious drumbeat against his temples.

The woman running the sale, all smiles and pleasantries, approached him. "Find something you like?"

He simply pointed. The woman, oblivious to the turmoil raging within him, named a price. He paid without a word, his throat tight, his gaze fixed on the bear. She handed him the bear, and then smiled a cheerful goodbye. He felt the need to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of this rediscovery.

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