The oven timer beeped, a shrill, unwelcome intrusion. Emily slammed her fist on the counter, the ceramic plates rattling in the cabinet. Her carefully crafted dinner party, complete with homemade pasta and a curated playlist, now felt pointless.

Across town, Olivia’s karaoke night, with its guaranteed crowd of boisterous attendees, was poised to eclipse her more modest gathering. Emily, usually calm and composed, found her hands shaking.

The perfect lighting she’d arranged, the carefully chosen wine glasses—all of it felt like a waste. Her carefully prepared meal sat in the oven, a symbol of her dashed expectations. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

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