The family bible, with its worn leather cover and faded gold lettering, lay open on the table. His cousin, Mark, was eyeing it. His grandmother had always given him the bible, and he had cherished it.

"It's just… a book," Mark stated, shrugging. His eyes flitted to the price tags he had been researching online. He felt a sudden, intense heat, a fire burning in his belly.

He picked up the bible, holding it protectively. He felt his lip curl. He was not letting this happen.

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