The cookbook landed on the counter with a thud. Liam stared at the glossy cover, his face ashen. “The King’s Cake.” The recipe was exactly the one his grandfather had taught him, the one he'd kept secret, the one he considered his legacy.

His chest constricted, making it difficult to draw a full breath. He felt trapped, suffocated. He wanted to shout, to tear the book apart. He felt as though the world was closing in on him.

He slammed his fist on the counter, the force making the dishes rattle in the cupboard.

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