The air conditioning blasted cold air onto David's face, but he was still burning up. His cheeks felt hot, and a dull ache throbbed behind his eyes. He slammed his fist down on the armrest, the noise startling a nearby elderly woman. He needed to be at the hospital. His sister was having a baby, and he wouldn't miss it. He hadn't seen her in months, and now this… this was an unbearable offense. He glared at the flashing departure board, as if staring it down would somehow change the information displayed.

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