It felt like a physical assault. David stared at the mirror image of his creation, the same formulas, the same conclusions, the same carefully chosen words. His breath hitched in his chest. His carefully built world, dismantled and reassembled.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sound loud in the quiet room. He felt a hot flush rising in his neck, his hands clenched. He had to do something. He had to know. He couldn't just stand here and be robbed.

He yanked open the door to his office and nearly knocked over a passing colleague. He ignored the apology. He was marching towards her office. He wanted answers, and he wanted them now. He quickened his pace, his shoes slapping against the floor.

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