The air crackled with a silent fury. Mark glared at the entrance to the hidden room, his chest heaving with each breath. The audacity of it! They had tricked him, swindled him. He felt betrayed.

He pictured the smug smiles of the sellers, their polite goodbyes. Now, it all seemed tainted, a carefully constructed illusion. He knew he'd been taken advantage of. He felt a deep, profound sense of violation.

He grabbed a hammer from the workbench in the garage and stormed back into 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