The room seemed to shrink, closing in on her. Emily felt a rising heat in her cheeks, her pulse quickening in time with the tapping of her foot. She'd played the game, always the team player, always going above and beyond.

A cold, hard knot formed in her stomach. The announcement felt like a betrayal. A betrayal of all her hard work, her commitment, her sacrifices.

She saw David accepting the congratulations, the easy smile, the effortless charm. She wanted to scream. She wanted to yell and tear down the carefully constructed façade. She grabbed her bag, and without a word, vanished.

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