He stared at the plans, his face contorted in a grimace. A fence. The paper felt like sandpaper against his skin. This wasn't just a fence; it was a declaration. A declaration of… something terrible.

He crumpled the plans into a tight ball, his knuckles white with the force. He fought the urge to throw it across the room. The injustice of it all! His blood pressure soared.

He stood, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He needed air. He needed to… to think. But mostly, he needed to react. He knew what he had to do. He would go talk to them. Now.

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