He marched down the attic stairs, his face a thundercloud. "Unbelievable," he barked at his wife, who was in the process of cooking lunch. The words were laced with a venom she hadn't heard in years. "They just… left it all! Like it wasn't their problem anymore!"

His hands were balled into fists, his knuckles white. The air felt thick with his frustration. He’d found a box overflowing with unpaid bills, their names scrawled across the envelopes. He slammed it down on the kitchen counter, nearly dislodging a spice rack.

"What were they thinking?" he asked the empty room, his voice rising in pitch. The question hung in the air, unanswered. It wasn't just the mess, it was the blatant disregard. The sheer lack of respect.

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