"Remember that concert?" Alex was saying, a nostalgic smile playing on her lips. "The music was incredible, and the atmosphere was electric!" Her description of the event felt like a slap in the face to Ben.

He slammed his fist on the table, making the glasses jump. His vision clouded. He remembered the crushing crowds, the terrible sound quality, and the fight that had broken out right in front of them. It felt as if he was being gaslighted.

“You’re wrong!” he said, his voice a low growl. Alex just rolled her eyes, as if his memory was faulty. The audacity of it all was almost unbearable.

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