The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now only seemed to mock him. His hands were shaking slightly as he handed the new employee the manual. The manuals he had written. Now they were being handed over, piece by piece.

He had to teach this stranger everything.

"The core function of this department," he began, gritting his teeth, "is customer relations." He felt a bitter taste on his tongue. He had built this department.

He wanted to run. He wanted to scream. "The first step is to learn the software."

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