The businessman in the tailored suit ripped off his tie, the silk snapping in his hands. He hurled it against the wall, the projectile landing with a pathetic thud. The deal. It was worth millions, a legacy-making deal. Now, it was crumbling before his eyes.

He’d planned every detail, every contingency. He’d reviewed the presentation dozens of times. He’d even skipped his favorite lunch to finalize everything. And this. This was what he got.

He felt a hot flush rush through him. He ripped open his collar, gasping for air. The airport air was thick, suffocating. He needed to be there. Now.

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