The smell of freshly baked bread, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. She slammed the oven door closed, the sudden noise a punctuation mark to her mounting ire.

Her hands shook as she poured a glass of water. It sloshed over the rim, spilling onto the counter. She didn't even care. The noise, the constant, unrelenting noise, was making her ill.

She considered driving away, fleeing the noise. But where could she go? This was her home. She was trapped.

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