He snatched the lilies from the delivery man, shoving the stems roughly under his arm. “Thanks,” he barked, the word clipped and devoid of warmth. Inside, the scent, sickly sweet, assaulted his nostrils. He tossed them onto the already cluttered desk, the fragile blooms scattering amongst the papers. His pen snapped in his hand. He stormed to the window, staring out at the rain-swept city. A vein throbbed in his temple. Damn the person who’d sent these. Damn them to hell.

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