The box, tied with a bright red bow, sat on her doorstep, a beacon of unwanted attention. From Michael, the student who'd challenged her authority at every turn, who'd tried to get her fired. A box of chocolates.

She kicked the box, sending it skidding across the porch. The bow ripped. The chocolates spilled out, a dark, sugary mess on the concrete. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach, a bitter taste rising in her throat.

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