He poured himself a generous measure of whiskey, the amber liquid sloshing over the rim of the glass. The DNA results, still propped open on the kitchen counter, taunted him with their stark simplicity. His father wasn't his father. His entire past was a fabrication. He took a long, hard swallow, the burn a meager distraction from the storm raging inside. He felt a primal urge to smash the glass against the wall, to destroy the evidence of this colossal betrayal. He simply couldn't stop shaking.

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