The audacity of it! John, reading the notice, felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He clenched his teeth so hard he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes.

He kicked the worn welcome mat, sending it skidding across the hallway. The sudden movement released some of the pent-up tension. He began to pace his apartment, his thoughts a chaotic jumble.

He slammed his fist against the wall, wincing at the sharp pain. The cheap plaster offered no resistance. He needed a release, a way to channel this… this *thing* that was churning inside 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