He stared at the screen, the words a sentence of betrayal. Kevin felt a cold, hard knot form in his gut. The sense of being deceived, of a carefully constructed lie, flooded him.

He slammed his hand down on the keyboard, the plastic cracking under the force. He didn't care. He swept everything from his desk, the papers and pens scattering across the floor.

He grabbed his coat and bolted from the office. The air outside was cold, but it didn't lessen the fire within. He needed to move, to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this new reality.

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