He couldn’t believe it. He’d just finished meticulously weeding his petunias when he saw the construction crew. A fence. They were hammering posts into the ground, right where his prize-winning roses bloomed.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. His breath hitched. He forgot to water the roses! He raced across the lawn, his gardening gloves flying off in his haste. He had to stop them. Now.

He sprinted towards the commotion, his face flushed, his voice already rising in his throat. This wasn't just a fence; it was an act of war, an invasion on his carefully crafted world.

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