Sweat beaded on Leo's forehead. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his fingers ached. The radio, broadcasting live from the music festival, spewed forth *his* song, "Echoes of the Past." A mangled, upbeat version that sounded like it had been run through a blender and then vomited back out.

His jaw tightened. He mashed the accelerator, tires screaming as he maneuvered through the city traffic. He was a breath away from just pulling over. He thought about the hours he spent honing that song, the pain he channeled into it, and this stranger was just... *playing* it?

He slammed his fist against the dashboard. It was a stupid, pointless gesture, he knew. But the fury in his gut, the feeling like he was being robbed, wouldn't allow him peace.

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