I pushed open the attic door, and the heat hit me like a wall. My chest felt tight. I stared at the chaos before me. A stack of dusty books, a broken mirror, a collection of old clothes… it was overwhelming.

I kicked a rusted can across the floor. My lip curled. The sheer thoughtlessness of it all made me want to scream. I grabbed a tattered quilt and ripped it in half, the sound a satisfying release.

I took a few deep breaths, the air thick with dust. I had to get through this. It was just another thing to deal with.

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