The lawyer’s office felt stifling. Sweat slicked through Leo’s palms as he listened to the man drone on about legal ramifications. “Possible inheritance issues,” the lawyer had said. Inheritance? Leo barely heard him. He was trapped in a vortex of disbelief. He kept squeezing and un-squeezing his fists. His life, a meticulously constructed tower, had been knocked down. He wanted to scream. All he could do was sit there, the taste of bile rising in his throat.

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