He had seen it first on Instagram, a post promoting a new line of clothing using his designs. The insidious little logo of the brand appeared on the corner, as if he, the artist, was their own. Now, standing outside the flagship store, the vibrant display felt like a slap in the face. His hands were shaking so bad, he could barely stand.

He wanted to charge into the store, to demand an explanation, to confront the people responsible. He wanted to rip the garments off the mannequins and set them ablaze. The injustice of it all was almost too much to bear.

His entire body throbbed with a kind of restless energy. He just wanted to destroy. He wanted to hurt them the way they hurt him.

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