He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. His daughter, Chloe, had just announced she was converting to Mormonism. He felt a prickling heat crawling up his neck. He stood abruptly, knocking over his coffee cup. The brown liquid stained the pristine white tablecloth. He ignored it, his gaze locked on Chloe, searching for some sign of a joke. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. He simply shook his head, a muscle in his jaw twitching.

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