He stood in front of the mirror, staring at his reflection. His face was flushed, his eyes blazing. He barely recognized himself. The coach's decision felt like a personal attack, a deliberate act of cruelty. He felt a rage boiling inside of him.

He slammed his fist on the counter, the force of the blow jarring him. He needed to do something, anything, to release this pent-up energy. He wanted to destroy, to break, to… He cut himself off, taking a deep breath.

He turned away from the mirror and grabbed his phone. He started typing a message, then deleted it. He needed to think. He slumped onto the bed, the anger still churning within 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