He didn't speak. He just glared. His eyes, narrowed to slits, followed his roommate as she meticulously set up the hedgehog's enclosure. Every movement, every tiny detail, seemed designed to provoke. The fluffy bedding, the miniature house, the… wheel.

He clenched his teeth so hard he felt his jaw ache. The silence in the room was deafening, amplified by the chirps and rustles coming from the cage.

He spun on his heel and strode to the kitchen, yanking open the refrigerator with unnecessary force. He searched for anything to calm his nerves. Anything at all.

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