The shopping bags, overflowing with cat supplies, sat abandoned by the front door. "I… I can't believe this," Michael whispered, his voice hoarse. His hands shook as he gestured towards the clutter. The absurdity of it all felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him.

He slammed the door shut behind him, the force making the walls tremble. The thought of coming home to a furball was like a punch to the gut. The smell of cat litter, the incessant meowing…

He imagined the cat perched on the kitchen counter, knocking everything off with a careless swipe of its paw. He shuddered, feeling a sudden, intense wave of nausea. He took a step towards the bags, and then kicked them in anger.

His roommate's smug face, a constant torment in his mind, was fueling his fury.

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