The air in the sterile hospital room felt heavy, suffocating. He’d found the wallet in the waiting room. Inside, a thick stack of cash. Enough to pay for the treatments. Enough to offer a glimmer of hope.

He looked at his wife, pale and frail in the bed. He felt something break inside. This shouldn’t be happening. He slammed the wallet against the table. The anger churned.

He wanted to scream at the sky, to fight back against the relentless injustice. He wanted to… he couldn't. He clenched his jaw.

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