As the email's contents became clear, Kevin felt his jaw clench. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up. The news was unwelcome. This company was his life. The new owners were coming in, and things would change.

He got to his feet, pacing back and forth in his small office. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a desire to fight, to protect what he had helped create. But the sale was final. There was nothing he could do.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact echoing in the silent office. He felt betrayed, cheated, robbed of his future. The sound seemed to emphasize the futility.

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