He considered the offer, but the thought of it made his skin crawl. "A little garden," Mr. Davis had said, a smile plastered on his face. He felt the familiar heat rising in his chest, a burning sensation that left him flushed and uncomfortable.

He retreated into the quiet of his study, slamming the door shut with a loud crash. He felt trapped, suffocated. The air in the room seemed to grow thick, making it difficult to breathe.

He gripped the edge of the desk, his knuckles turning white, attempting to regain control. He needed to think, to find a way to deal with this unwanted intrusion before he completely lost it.

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