The air crackled with unspoken tension. "It's not happening," John stated, his voice flat. He refused to look at the large, empty reptile enclosure in the corner of the living room, a testament to his roommate's complete lack of consideration.

He wanted to tear the thing apart, smash it to pieces, erase it from existence. His hands twitched. His temples pounded. The blood rushing to his head made him feel dizzy.

He felt an urge to run, to escape the suffocating presence of this unwanted pet and his roommate's infuriating smugness.

He opened the front door, slamming it behind him with every ounce of his strength.

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