He ripped off his tie, the knot loosened and hanging askew. John stared at the newly revealed hidden room, his face a mask of disbelief. This was supposed to be a fresh start, a clean slate. He had trusted them. He should have known better.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging several strands in the process. His jaw was tight, his muscles rigid. The whole thing was an insult, a blatant disregard for his investment. They had sold him a facade.

He needed air, he thought. He had to get out of here. He stormed out of the house.

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