The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, mocking the anger bubbling inside him. The package sat on the doorstep, a bright beacon of irritation. "For Mr. Arthur Finch." The name alone was enough.

He strode out, his steps heavy on the porch. He picked it up and examined it, his jaw tight. It was a large, heavy box. He tossed it into the back of his truck.

He started the engine, the rumble of the motor a soothing balm, and headed down the road. He drove for an hour, the scenery blurring past. Finally, he pulled into a deserted parking lot and grabbed a crowbar. He started tearing the box apart.

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