The room seemed to spin. The hospital administrator droned on, a string of platitudes and excuses. Liam’s hands clenched at his sides. The implications of this error were staggering, potentially life-altering.

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The administrator's voice was a distant buzz, each word twisting the knife further. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat of fury.

He abruptly stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He leaned over the table, his voice a low growl. “This isn’t about apologies,” he said. “This is about fixing this. 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