The cheerful card in his hand felt like a venomous joke. He stared at it, his face a mask of controlled fury. His chest tightened; the air felt too thin. He crushed the card, the paper crinkling and protesting under his grip. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. He wanted to understand why this card had been sent to him. He wanted answers he knew he would never get. He slammed the mailbox shut, the sound echoing in the silent street.

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