The air crackled with a silent tension. She stood at the window, watching the poodle, its white fur a stark contrast to her vibrant flowerbeds. The dog was happily digging, burying… something. She ground her teeth, a noise almost loud enough to be heard across the yard.

“That’s it,” she said, her voice a low, dangerous rumble. She grabbed her keys, her knuckles white as she gripped them. The neighbor was going to regret this.

She stormed out of the house, the door slamming shut with a sound that felt satisfyingly destructive.

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