The familiar scent of sandalwood cologne, his father's trademark, filled the air. David was recounting their childhood camping trip. He remembered sunshine, happy singalongs around the campfire, and delicious s'mores. A bitter taste rose in Leo's throat.

Leo rose to his feet, knocking over his chair. The wood scraped harshly against the hardwood floor. He remembered the torrential rain, the leaky tent, and the endless hours of boredom. His father's cheerful reminiscence felt like a personal affront.

“That’s not how it happened!” he choked out, his voice thick with suppressed emotion. The injustice of it all felt like a physical blow.

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