He glared at the fence, its stark, new wood glinting in the sun. It was an act of war. A silent, wooden declaration of…well, he couldn't put a label on it. But it was absolutely unacceptable.

He felt a cold, hard rage building within him, a slow burn that spread through his limbs. His fists clenched and unclenched. He wanted to scream, to tear the fence down with his bare hands.

He turned away, forcing himself to breathe, to calm down. He needed a plan, a way to make them regret this. He would figure it out. He had to.

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