The waiter, trembling, placed the offending review on the table before Chef Marco. Marco stared at the neatly typed prose, a wave of heat washing over him. His normally tanned skin flushed crimson.

He slammed his fist on the table, making the silverware jump. The small, intimate dining room fell silent. "He dares!" he growled, his voice a low, dangerous rumble.

He pushed back from his chair, his chair scraping against the stone floor. He grabbed his coat, his movements sharp and deliberate. He had to get out, away from the suffocating atmosphere of his own restaurant.

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