The blood roared in David's ears. He felt a sudden, violent urge to shatter the glass display case. The ring. It was *there*. He recognized the peculiar flaws in the sapphire, the way the light caught and danced. This was a nightmare. This was impossible.

He’d spent weeks, months even, searching. Now, it was here, in this dingy, forgotten corner of the city. He struggled to breathe, his chest felt constricted.

"Let me see it," he managed to choke out. His voice cracked with the strain of suppressed fury. He couldn't believe this was happening. He wouldn't let it stand.

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