He stared at the antique pocket watch, turning it over in his hand. The weight felt heavy, burdensome. His sister, Olivia, had inherited the family's vineyard, the lush green vines she'd always coveted. He, instead, got the watch, a family heirloom, a symbol of… what?

He stalked the perimeter of the mansion, kicking at pebbles in the gravel driveway. The solicitor’s oily reassurances had done nothing to quell the storm inside him. It felt like a deliberate slight, a calculated insult.

The injustice of it festered in his gut, a slow-burning poison. He’d poured his life into the family's legacy, and now this.

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