The overhead light flickered, casting long, dancing shadows across the attic floor. He surveyed the scene, his fists clenched at his sides. He saw a collection of dusty board games. The lack of care was palpable.

“This is ridiculous,” he growled, the words escaping in a strained whisper. A broken model airplane lay in pieces on a shelf. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated frustration course through him.

He slammed his fist against the shelf, sending the remaining pieces of the plane tumbling to the floor. The wood groaned under the pressure. His jaw locked. He would get rid of all this chaos.

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