The air around him crackled. He had worked so hard. He wanted to scream. His son thought he could keep this from him? His own flesh and blood. He felt his face heat up.

He kicked the chair across the room, it hitting the wall and falling over. He didn't care.

He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath, "Unbelievable. Unbelievable." His body was tight. Every muscle was knotted. He wanted to break something, anything.

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