The clatter of the construction crew echoed through the otherwise empty street, each hammering blow a hammer to her composure. Annabel felt a pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a migraine. The polite, carefully worded notice. The lack of prior consultation. The audacity!

She stood on her porch, her arms crossed tight, and observed the men. The smile faded from her face and her jaw tightened. The blood roared in her ears, a deafening drumbeat of frustration.

She turned and stalked back inside, slamming the door behind her.

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