He found himself pacing the sidelines, a caged animal. The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of his disappointment. He was supposed to be in the game, playing, contributing. Instead, he was watching, a spectator to his own failure. He felt the cold steel of frustration deep inside.

The coach’s words still rang in his ears, a constant echo. He clenched his fists, the blood draining from his knuckles. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything to release this pressure.

He turned away from the field, needing to escape the suffocating atmosphere. He walked with long, angry strides, the grass crunching beneath his feet. He had to get away.

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