He grabbed the nearest empty water bottle and hurled it across the room. It shattered against the wall, sending plastic shards flying. He paced, back and forth, the polished floors reflecting his agitated movements. "No," he muttered under his breath. "That is not okay."

The man from sales, Kevin, was at the door. He was smiling again, the way he always did. Kevin had sabotaged his science fair project. Kevin had won. He didn't want to see his face. He remembered the feeling of failure.

"What do you want, Kevin?" His voice was a low growl. He was trying to be polite, but it was hard.

Kevin paused, his smile dimming slightly. "Just wanted to see if you needed anything. Heard the printer broke again."

He stared at the broken bottle in his hand. “Get out.”

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