The airport felt like a pressure cooker. Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Marcus. He could taste the metallic tang of fury in his mouth. He'd been looking forward to seeing his mother after a year away. This was his one chance to see her before she started chemo. The delayed flight was a personal affront, a deliberate act of sabotage aimed at ruining everything. He began to pace, his gait jerky and erratic, each step a frustrated stomp on the pristine tile floor.

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