The air was unusually still, the silence amplifying the rhythmic crash of the machinery. His teeth were gritted, his jaw locked. He felt a constant thrumming in his ears, a vibration that mirrored the demolition’s relentless assault.

He wanted to run at the bulldozer and stop it, but he felt rooted to the spot. The foreman, seeing him, just shrugged and looked away.

He reached for his phone, and fumbled with the screen. He could barely see through the sudden blur of tears. *This can't be happening.*

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