The realtor’s slick smile seemed to taunt him. He balled his hands into fists, nails biting into his palms. "You call this progress?" he asked, his voice a low growl.

The woman, with her perfectly coiffed hair and vapid eyes, just droned on about market value and modern conveniences. He wanted to snatch her expensive handbag and hurl it across the street.

He watched them, standing there, these vultures. He felt his face flush. He pushed past the realtor and went to his car. The engine roared to life with the sound of a wounded animal, begging for release.

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