The news report, playing on the television in the pawn shop, showed a commercial. In the background was *his* instrumental, "Chromatic Dreams." But the commercial was for cleaning products.

He slammed his fist on the counter, startling the shop owner. His temples throbbed. This wasn't just a cover. It was a betrayal. He felt his fingers itch for the man who decided this was ok.

He yelled, "Turn it off!" The owner, a frail man with a perpetually bored expression, slowly reached for the remote.

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