The landlord's cheery smile felt like a deliberate insult. After he finished explaining the condo conversion, Thomas retreated to his apartment.

The walls seemed to shrink, the air thick with unspoken resentment. He kicked his shoes off with a viciousness he didn't realize he possessed. He crossed the room, grabbed a throw pillow from the couch, and hurled it at the television.

The pillow fell short, landing limply on the floor. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The fury was building, a relentless tide within 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