The sight of the fence posts being hammered into the ground sent a jolt of pure, unadulterated… anger through him. It was an assault on his senses, a brutal intrusion on his quiet existence.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation akin to being physically squeezed. His face flushed with a sudden, overwhelming heat. He'd poured his heart and soul into that garden. Now, it was being defiled.

He began to pace the length of his patio, muttering under his breath, his hands gesturing wildly. He would not stand for this. He would not.

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