The wind howled, mimicking the furious churning in David’s stomach. He stood at his back door, arms crossed, staring at the tangled mess. The sycamore, that damned, towering sycamore of Mrs. Gable’s, had split his fence in two, depositing a tangle of branches into his meticulously manicured vegetable garden. He could feel his face flush hot. He was so close to finally getting a harvest!

He grabbed his hatchet from the shed. He would start clearing the debris immediately. He wouldn't let this slide.

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