He stood in the doorway, his shoulders slumped, his jaw tight. The attic was a disaster, a repository of forgotten things. He felt an intense wave of… disappointment. And something else, something sharper, like a splinter under the skin.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, as he surveyed the mess: furniture, useless trinkets. His fists clenched and unclenched. They hadn't even bothered to take their belongings with them. They'd just… left.

He was going to have to spend the rest of the day sorting through this detritus. He could feel a headache coming on. His temper was flaring.

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