The sheer weight of the accumulation made Daniel's head spin. Stacks of school projects, essays, and drawings filled the storage room. Each item was a reminder of a period in his life he'd rather forget. The sheer quantity, the level of detail, it was oppressive.

He began pacing the length of the room, his hands shoved deep in his pockets. He stopped, leaned forward, and let out a strangled laugh.

He found his mother in the garden, tending to her roses. He wanted to scream. He wanted to confront her. He didn't. He ran.

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