Her vision narrowed. The German shepherd was at the bird feeder again, scattering seeds and scaring off the lovely little sparrows that she tried so hard to attract. Her jaw locked, her fists clenched so tightly the nails were digging into her palms.

She wanted to yell, to scream, to… something.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to charge into the neighbor’s yard and drag the beast away by its collar. Instead, she took out her phone. She started to type a text. The message was succinct: “Your dog.”

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