He felt his pulse hammering in his ears. Operations to Human Resources. The implication was clear: They considered him a problem. A liability. He slammed his fist on the table, making the monitor shake. The anger boiled, a scalding tide threatening to consume him. He needed to get out, to breathe.

He grabbed his jacket, yanking it on with a violence that ripped the lining. The walk to the parking garage was a blur of furious thoughts. He kicked a loose pebble, sending it skittering across the concrete. The engine roared to life as he slammed the accelerator.

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