His breath hitched in his throat. He'd been looking for the electrical panel, a problem with the wiring had plunged the kitchen into darkness. Then he'd pushed at what he thought was a false wall, and it swung inward, revealing a cold, empty chamber. The veins in his forehead throbbed. This house, the dilapidated wreck he'd poured his life into fixing, was a constant stream of hidden problems. He slammed his fist against the wall, the sound echoing in the silent house. It was a never-ending cycle, a curse.

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