"Seriously?" Mark slammed his laptop shut, the screen flashing black. Ms. Davis, the woman who'd just failed him on a pop quiz, was now following him. His jaw clenched. He'd poured his heart out to his friends about her, the way she dressed, her weird laugh, her…everything. He could feel the blood pounding in his ears.

He ripped off his headphones, tossing them across the room. They bounced off the wall. He paced back and forth, fists clenched. How could she? The unfairness of it all was suffocating. He wanted to tear something apart. He wanted to make her regret everything.

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