He kicked at the flimsy door, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent house. The door hadn’t been opened in decades. The previous owners. The people he had trusted. He had just wanted a peaceful life.

He spat on the floor. The hidden room felt like an invasion, a violation of the sanctity of his home. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He felt a burning pressure building behind his eyes.

He didn't know what he was going to do, but he knew he wouldn't let this go.

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