She stared at the text message: "Can you please turn down the music? It's really loud." She tossed her phone onto the sofa. A red haze filled her vision.

She marched to the stereo, the floorboards groaning under her weight. Her hands shook as she grabbed the volume dial. They wanted quiet? Fine. She'd give them quiet.

She turned the volume down to zero, the sudden silence deafening. Then, with a savage twist, she began putting on a soundtrack that would surely bother them.

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