The spreadsheets swam before his eyes, a confusing mess of numbers and figures. He’d spent hours on them, only to discover that his data had been subtly corrupted. He knew, with a certainty that burned in his gut, who was responsible.

He remembered the camp talent show. The way the other camper had sabotaged his magic act, ruining his chance to win the coveted trophy. The other camper was now standing directly in front of him. He was about to explode.

"So, Mark," he said, his voice a low growl, "How's that 'accidentally' deleted file coming along?" His knuckles were white.

Mark's smile faltered. He ran a hand through his hair, his eyes darting around the room. He knew.

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