He stared at his reflection in the dusty mirror, his face a mask of simmering fury. The house, the only place he'd ever truly felt at home, now belonged primarily to *her*. His sister, Caroline. He felt a coldness spread through him, a feeling of utter betrayal.

He kicked a loose stone, the sound echoing in the silent hallway. He'd always been overlooked, disregarded. And now, this final insult. The thought fueled his anger.

He wandered through the rooms, feeling like an intruder in his own life. The silence was deafening, the air thick with unspoken resentments. He slammed the door behind him and stormed out the front door, leaving the house behind.

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