The surveyor's measuring tape snapped back against his skin, leaving a red welt. She didn't even flinch. It was as if she were made of stone. The coldness radiating from her, from all of them, made him want to shatter something.

He didn't bother to respond to the polite words of the demolition crew. He just turned his back, shoving his hands into his pockets. He wanted to crush something beneath his feet. He wanted to be destructive.

He kicked at the loose gravel. Each stone, each tiny piece of debris, was a piece of him, a piece of his history, about to be pulverized.

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