The vibrant colors of the wedding decorations seemed to mock him. Everything was perfect, except for the glaring presence of *her*. Michael felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He hadn't expected this. Hadn't prepared for the internal turmoil that stirred within him.

He felt a burning sensation in his eyes. He quickly blinked, trying to regain his composure. He tried to think of anything else, anything to deflect from the searing pain of the encounter.

He excused himself from the conversation and moved into the garden, seeking solace in the fresh air. The garden, however, offered no respite, and the air only seemed to exacerbate his already agitated state.

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