The university office felt like a suffocating cage. The air was thick with unspoken judgements, the silence punctuated by the rhythmic drumming of his fingers against the wooden table. He stared at the professor across the table, his gaze fixed, unwavering.

His palms were clammy. He clenched and unclenched his fists beneath the table, the frustration building with each passing minute. His voice, when he spoke, was tight, controlled, barely containing the explosion that threatened to erupt.

“I find this utterly preposterous,” he managed, his voice a low growl. He leaned forward, his elbows planted on the table, challenging the professor to meet his gaze.

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