He felt a sudden, consuming heat rise within him. It originated in his chest, spreading like wildfire through his veins. The small dog, that constantly escaping chihuahua, was currently joyfully using his prize-winning tomato plants as a personal urinal. He could feel a vein throbbing in his temple.

He marched outside, feet heavy, each step a deliberate act of controlled violence. The dog yipped playfully, oblivious to the storm brewing in the man’s features. He reached the fence, his hands gripping the wood as if he would tear it apart.

"That's enough!" he spat, the words a venomous spray.

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