A slow, creeping anger began to build inside Daniel. He was supposed to be enjoying himself, celebrating his friend’s happiness. Instead, he was stuck staring at the man who had wrecked his life. The man who had shown up at the wedding.

He felt a sudden tightening in his shoulders, a physical manifestation of his simmering rage. He couldn't keep his eyes away, his gaze burning a hole into the man's back. He wanted to shout, but the words were stuck in his throat.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. The wedding, once a pleasant setting, now felt like a cage, and he was the unwilling captive.

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