He saw it on the billboard while driving. "Antonio's Award-Winning Salsa." The same recipe, the same vibrant colors, the same meticulous method he had worked his fingers to the bone over.

His foot slammed on the break. The car screeched to a halt. His vision swam for a moment, the world tilting.

A low growl emanated from his throat, a sound he barely recognized as his own. He wanted to rip that billboard down, to tear it into shreds. But he knew that was foolish. Instead, he slammed his fist against the steering wheel.

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