He grabbed the package. The address: "Mrs. Delia Stone." She had left the apartment a mess. The previous owner. A low growl escaped his throat.

He stormed into the kitchen, his heart hammering in his chest. He grabbed a kitchen knife. The impulse to stab the box, to tear it apart, was overwhelming.

He threw the package into the trash compactor. He pressed the button. The machine whirred to life, and he heard the crushing of cardboard. He stood there, watching the mechanical monster do its work, a grim satisfaction washing over him.

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