The student union was a hive of confused chatter. He pushed through the crowd, the air thick with disbelief and fear. His own emotions were a churning storm, threatening to break.

He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs. He wanted to do something to give these people a taste of his pain. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, imagining the board of trustees, their smug faces, their callous disregard.

He spotted the president of the student body, and his legs carried him forward, his voice a low growl of anger. "What are we going to do?" he demanded, his voice trembling slightly.

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