The meeting had just ended. The other guy tried to shake his hand. He refused, and instead, just stood there and stared. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

He remembered the summer camp. The bully. The stolen things. The cruel laughter. The man who had been the source of all that torment was now his colleague.

"You really think you can just waltz in here?" He said under his breath. He was so close to yelling.

The other man blinked, his smile fading. "Excuse me?"

"You know what you did," he said, his voice now a low, dangerous growl. He didn't break eye contact. Not once.

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