The note on the front door was like a punch to the gut. The tow company, the reason, the location. He crumpled the paper in his hand. They had the audacity! He felt his face flush red, his temples throbbing.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to drive the car through their offices. He started pacing, back and forth, trying to burn off the restless energy surging through him. He wouldn't let this go.

He'd get his car back.

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