He kicked the box, aiming for its flimsy side. It didn't budge. He felt a surge of frustration. "Mr. Silas Blackwood," the address read, in neat, elegant script. Blackwood, the charlatan who had scammed half the neighborhood before disappearing.

He picked up the box, the paper feeling slick and cheap beneath his fingers. He walked into the living room, searching for something to unleash his internal turbulence upon. He snatched a decorative vase from a shelf and tossed it to the ground. Shattered pieces exploded across the floor.

He paced back and forth, unable to stand still. He needed to *do* something. He kicked the box again. It finally broke open. Inside, a collection of expensive art supplies. He scoffed, his lips curling into a sneer.

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