He drove past the street, refusing to look. He couldn't. He kept his eyes focused on the road, his grip on the steering wheel tight enough to make his knuckles white.

He circled the block, again and again. Each time, he felt his chest constrict. He imagined what was happening behind the fence, the destruction, the obliteration of everything.

Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. He pulled over, got out of the car, and just stood there, breathing deeply. The tears came, hot and stinging, washing over his face.

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