He hadn't felt this shaken in years. The news, blared across the radio, made him grip the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. “The Fishmonger's Feast, a casualty of the economy…” He slammed his hand on the dashboard.

The air in the car felt thick, suffocating. He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling roughly. He needed to *do* something. That place was his escape, the taste of the sea, the friendly banter with the staff.

He threw the car in park, his chest burning. He had a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream.

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