The phone felt slick in Sarah's hand. That smug voice, Mr. Davies, offering a *generous* sum for the removal of the sycamore. Generous? He called it generous! The tree was a monument, a living thing.

Her fingers tightened, the knuckles turning white. She gripped the phone so hard she thought it might shatter. Her breath hitched.

"No," she managed, her voice tight, controlled. "Absolutely not." She slammed the phone down, the action fueled by a sudden, intense need to break something. She kicked a nearby chair, the wood splintering against the wall.

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