The presentation went smoothly, a flawless delivery, and a perfect analysis. Yet, as he watched Sarah, the new intern, take the credit, he felt a knot tightening in his chest. His work, his effort, it was worthless.

His face was flushed, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the blood pounding in his ears, a constant, furious rhythm. He wanted to shout. To scream.

He wanted to expose the truth, to call out the unfairness. Instead, he forced a smile, congratulated Sarah and excused himself from the gathering. His only thought was getting away from the building, from the people, from 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