"No." That was all he said. A single, sharp word, spat into the air. He couldn't trust himself to speak further. The sight of the tiny, fluffy rabbit, hopping happily around the living room, was a direct assault on his sanity.

He felt a sudden, intense need to… to do something. He paced back and forth, his hands balled into fists at his sides.

The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt as if a physical weight were pressing down on him. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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