“Just… gone?” He repeated the question to the blank-faced receptionist. The woman just offered a shrug. His mentor, Mr. Harrison, the man who’d seen him through his worst mistakes, who’d believed in him when no one else did, vanished. Without a word. He stormed out of the building, ignoring the calls of the staff, the questioning glances. His vision blurred, the world around him a distorted mess. He needed air, needed to get away from the sterile environment. He walked the streets, oblivious to the passersby, and felt the need to destroy something, anything. He found a trash can, and kicked it so hard he felt a pain shoot up his leg.

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