He slammed the phone down, the plastic cracking against the wooden desk. “Fraud! This is all a goddamn lie!” Mark roared into the empty apartment. He paced, each footfall a thunderclap against the hardwood floor. He'd always known his parents weren’t perfect, but this? A stranger's face stared back at him from the Ancestry.com profile. A woman, claiming to be his sister. His carefully constructed identity was cracking, crumbling under the weight of this deception. He grabbed a ceramic mug and hurled it against the fireplace.

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