He felt a coldness spread through him, a chilling contrast to the heat that had moments before been raging. His hands shook as he watched the miniature dachshund, its low-slung body perfectly designed for wreaking havoc, trample his tulips. He could barely breathe.

He let out a shaky breath, then another, trying to calm his racing thoughts. He was going to have a talk with the owners of the animal. He had to be calm. He had to be civil.

He made his way to the fence. The dog looked up at him, tail wagging expectantly.

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