He ripped off his helmet, flinging it across the room. The metallic clang echoed in the empty weight room. Mark couldn’t believe it. He’d trained harder than anyone. The football team selections felt like a punch to the gut. The air around him felt thick, suffocating. He paced back and forth, fists clenched. His vision blurred slightly with unshed tears. The injustice of it all burned. He wanted to lash out, to scream, to make them understand. The audacity of it.

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