Dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun as Marcus surveyed the damage. His jaw clenched. He pictured Harold, that grinning, inconsiderate oaf, standing on his porch, probably chuckling. The tree, Harold’s monstrous, overgrown spruce, had smashed a good portion of his newly built shed. Marcus ran a hand through his hair, finding it plastered to his forehead with sweat.

He kicked a loose piece of lumber, sending it skittering across the lawn. He would make Harold pay. Every single cent.

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