He stared at the blank screen, the website of the university now devoid of Professor Albright’s faculty profile. He knew he'd been given a huge opportunity, an incredibly supportive mentor, and now the man who had encouraged him to take it, to trust in his abilities, had vanished. He felt a sudden, inexplicable surge of heat, his face burning. He started to type a furious email, deleting it, then starting again, then deleting it again. He could not find the right words to describe the utter disregard. He crumpled his hands into tight fists. He wanted to dismantle the entire system, to expose the cold indifference of it all.

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