He found it in the gutter, practically trampled. The leather was scuffed and worn, but the contents… He felt a sudden, violent throb in his chest. A wad of hundred-dollar bills. A small, elegant diamond ring. And a business card.

He read the name on the card – a name synonymous with everything he despised. Wealth. Privilege. He wanted to scream. To tear everything apart. To... He balled his hands into fists.

He wanted to ruin the man, make him feel the same hollow ache that had consumed him for years. The injustice of it all – he felt his throat tighten.

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