He ripped the jersey off, the fabric tearing under his furious grip. Sweat plastered his hair to his forehead. The fluorescent lights of the gym seemed to buzz, amplifying the throbbing behind his eyes. *No.* It wasn’t possible. After all the hours, the sacrifices, the relentless training. The coach’s words, a soft hum in his ears, were just noise. He slammed his fist into the locker, a dull thud that echoed the emptiness inside him.

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