He stared at the small, dark space behind the chimney, his lips drawn back in a snarl. The room had been cleverly concealed behind a false brick facade. He'd known, deep down, that something was off with this house, that the previous owners hadn’t been honest. He'd sensed the deceit in their overly cheerful smiles, their eager willingness to sell. Now, seeing the secret room, that premonition had been confirmed, a confirmation that twisted something inside him. He kicked at the loose brick, sending it skittering across the floor.

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