He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the book lying open on the counter behind him. The man staring back looked older, his eyes shadowed, his face drawn. He looked nothing like the confident businessman portrayed within the glossy pages. A wave of nausea surged through him.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to regain control. His carefully constructed life, the one he had meticulously crafted, felt like a house of cards, ready to collapse at any moment. He couldn't breathe. He felt trapped, cornered.

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