He glared at his brother, who was smiling at him. "It's just money, man. Nothing personal." The old record player, his father’s, was their conversation piece. He felt a sharp pang of pain.

He wanted to shout, but the words got caught in his throat. He looked away, focusing on a crack in the wall.

He grabbed his jacket and bolted out the door, the front door slamming shut behind him. He needed to escape the suffocating weight of this feeling. He needed to be alone.

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