The color drained from his face. A wave of heat pulsed through him. He felt as if someone had punched him in the stomach. There, amongst the detritus of someone else's life, sat his childhood bear. *Desecrated.*

He remembered the love he had for that bear, the comfort he'd taken from it. Now, it was a piece of junk to be sold to the highest bidder.

His teeth clenched so hard that he thought they might crack. He pointed at the woman, her hair in a messy bun.

"I want that," he said, his voice a low growl. The woman seemed surprised. He didn't care. He needed to get him back.

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