He stared at the offending speaker, the source of all this grief. He kicked it, hard. His toe throbbed, but he barely noticed.

The paper, a new note, lay on the floor, accusing him of disturbing the peace. He crumpled it in his fist. He was tired of this. Tired of them.

He needed to get away, get far away. His mind began to wander. He decided. He wouldn't leave yet. Not before they paid.

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