The snow crunched beneath his boots, each step a testament to his mounting frustration. The capsule was a cold, metallic object in a frigid landscape. He felt his face grow hot, flushed with a potent mixture of indignation and confusion. How could he not remember this?

He shoved his hands deep into his pockets, trying to quell the tremors that ran through his body. This whole scenario was an outrage, a blatant disregard for his life, his property, his sanity. He couldn't understand it.

He crouched down, examining the lid. The cold metal burned his fingers. He wanted to hurl it as far as he could.

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