The waiting room suddenly felt like a pressure cooker. The air hung thick and heavy, and the clock on the wall ticked with maddening slowness. Emily’s hands trembled so violently that she had to grip the arms of her chair.

The nurse, bless her heart, kept offering reassurances that felt hollow. It was all a mistake, they said, they were working on it. Yet the error had already caused irreparable damage.

Emily’s head throbbed. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She pushed herself to her feet, her legs unsteady. “I want to see the person responsible,” she said, her voice thin but firm. She had to find the source.

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