The photograph on the desk, a faded snapshot of the two of them laughing, seemed to mock him. James picked it up, then flung it across the room. Shattered glass. That’s what he felt like. He’d poured his heart and soul into the project, into the mentorship, trusting Professor Evans implicitly. Now, a terse email, a brief mention of a “change of scenery,” and poof! He felt a sharp, unfamiliar pain in his chest, as if a fist had clenched his heart.

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