The wind whipped around him, mirroring the turmoil within. She was reminiscing about their first ski trip, the thrill of the slopes, the stunning scenery. He wanted to shout.

“I was stuck in a blizzard!” he yelled, his breath catching in his throat. He remembered the freezing cold, the terrifying ride on the lift, and the sheer terror.

She just looked at him, confused. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. It was as if she was trying to drive him mad.

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