He stared at his wife, Eleanor, dumbfounded. The words, "I'm converting to Wicca," echoed in his ears. A chill ran down his spine. The room, usually filled with sunlight, felt dim, oppressive. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to shout, to *shatter* something. He balled his hands into fists. “You… you can’t be serious,” he choked out, his voice barely a whisper. He turned away, needing to put distance between himself and the unthinkable reality.

Emotion: outraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.96 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.32

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion outraged. 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 outraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the outraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the outraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.467
0.334
🤬0.327
aggravated0.323
0.312
Suppressed:
H-0.315
☺️-0.286
optimistic-0.278
adventurous-0.262
मुस्कुरा-0.260