The silence of the garage was deafening as Ethan stood amongst the boxes. He felt a flush creep up his neck. His old science projects were here. The art projects. The poems he wrote for his high school girlfriend. He had no clue.

His fists were clenched, and he felt a pressure behind his eyes. He slowly began to tear off the labels on the boxes. The anger simmered in the quiet room.

He grabbed his baseball bat and began to swing, aiming for the boxes one by one.

He felt a measure of satisfaction as paper and cardboard flew through the air.

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