The waiting room's soft music was like a personal insult. He wanted heavy metal, something that matched the tempest inside him. He felt his teeth grinding, and fought to stop the movement. He had been planning to throw the guy in the ocean and leave him to drown since he got the note. But now…

He’d almost turned around in the parking lot. The thought had been a very tempting prospect.

The door opened, and in walked Marcus. Dr. Campbell, he reminded himself. He was smiling. The same annoying, confident smirk.

"Come on in, James," he said, his voice as calm as ever.

James stood there, frozen.

"Well?" Dr. Campbell pressed.

James' chest was tight. He moved his hands. He made a fist.

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