The news sliced through him like a physical blow. The doctor’s words, the nonchalant tone – it was all too much. He slammed his fist on the desk, the sound echoing in the empty office. He needed to escape.

He stood up so quickly that his chair tipped over, hitting the floor with a loud crack. He needed to do something, anything to channel the torrent of fury that was consuming him.

He stormed out of the office, slamming the door so hard that the frame rattled. He needed to be alone, to think, to find a way to make this right, and to make whoever was responsible pay.

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