He reread the email, the terse, impersonal words stinging his eyes. "New horizons. Good luck." Alex slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the sterile office. His mentor, Mr. Peterson, had been the one constant in his professional life, the one person who believed in him. All that time, all the shared strategy sessions, all the encouragement...and this was all he got. He needed to be angry but he felt numb, a hollow ache where his anger should have been.

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