The news felt like a physical blow to Liam. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling cold and shaky. His hands trembled as he reread the email. He wanted to throw his keyboard across the room, but he knew the damage he would cause and took a deep breath.

He stood up from his chair. He walked to the window, staring out at the cityscape. He saw nothing but the cold, uncaring world. He had invested so much in this company, his hopes, his dreams, his entire career. Now, it was being sold, with no regard for the people who had made it successful.

He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He thought about all the conversations he'd had with colleagues about the future.

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