The constant chirping was a torture, a tiny, insistent drill boring into her brain. Sarah covered her ears, trying to shut out the sound. "A *bird*? You've got to be kidding me, right?"

Her voice was strained, barely audible above the noise. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a desire to explode. The cute little cage, placed right in the middle of their dining room table, felt like a deliberate act of provocation.

She grabbed the cage, feeling the wire dig into her skin. She had to take a few steps back before setting it back down. The sight of her roommate calmly reading on the couch made her clench her fists.

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