He picked up the package. The address: "Mr. Thomas Riley." It was the fifth one this month. He sighed, a short, sharp expulsion of breath. Another reminder of the careless man who had abandoned his apartment and his responsibilities.

He carried the box into the kitchen and set it on the table. He found a crowbar in the garage and brought it inside. He paused, looking at the package. He needed to channel the feeling of… of being used.

He pried the box open. Inside, a brand-new set of expensive headphones. He took the headphones, brought them to the sink, and ran hot water on them. He threw them in the garbage disposal.

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