The air crackled around him. He felt as though the world had tilted. He’d never seen so much money in his life. The sheer volume felt offensive, a blatant disregard for the struggles he faced daily. His lip curled.

He had been planning to sell his car. He had to decide if he was going to eat or pay the bills. He wanted to feel some semblance of security, and the owner of the wallet had a lot.

He picked up the wallet and felt the heat of the anger burn through him. This was not fair. The universe was playing a sick joke. He wanted to cry out.

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