He stared at the classroom door, the number '204' branded onto the wood. A shiver ran through him. Mr. Finch. His nemesis from seventh grade. The memory of the endless hours he had spent in detention flashed before his eyes. It was a suffocating feeling, like being trapped in a small, dark space. The classroom door was so innocent, yet it felt like a portal back to all the bad experiences. He took a deep breath.

"That's just great," he muttered under his breath, his voice strained. He turned and walked away.

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