He stared at the words, each one a jab, a personal affront. His face flushed, and he could feel his teeth grinding together. He balled the paper in his fist, crushing it until the ink smeared on his palm. He wanted to scream, to smash something, to lash out.

He walked to the window, his gaze drawn towards his landlord’s building. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, as he stared at the facade. He needed to find a way to make them regret this. He thought of all the things he could do, all the ways he could fight back. He smiled a thin, humorless smile, as a plan started to form in his mind.

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