Her stomach twisted into a painful knot as she absorbed the information. Professor Lee, the cornerstone of her academic life, was leaving. The blood in her ears hammered a frantic rhythm. She felt a surge of adrenaline, pushing her to the brink.

She clenched her jaw, feeling the muscles strain. She wanted to run, to escape this suffocating reality. She felt trapped, abandoned. Her breath hitched.

She stood abruptly, overturning her chair in the process. It crashed to the floor. She did not bother to pick it up.

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