The air in the apartment felt heavy, thick with the weight of her thwarted expectations. Thomas slammed the door, the sound resonating through the small space. His best friend had just phoned, delivering the devastating news about the cancelled party.

He stood in the hallway, his shoulders slumped, his fists clenched at his sides. The gifts he had purchased were piled on the counter, each one a stark reminder of the joyous event that would not happen.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to do *something*. He kicked the wall, wincing as pain shot up his foot.

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