He re-read the email, each word a fresh stab. The scholarship, the one that had given him a sense of purpose and direction, was a mistake. Someone else's. The injustice of it, the sheer audacity of the error, stole his breath. He felt a white-hot fury course through his veins.

His hands clenched into fists. He slammed the laptop shut, the sharp sound echoing in the small room. He wanted to break something, to tear the world apart. He grabbed his keys and stormed out of the apartment, the door slamming shut behind him with a resounding crack.

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