He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. The website, displaying the rival company’s product, was a mirror image of his own creation. Every detail, every carefully crafted feature, replicated. His jaw clenched so tight he felt a muscle spasm.

"They can't get away with this," Leo snarled, his voice a low growl. He grabbed a ceramic mug off the coffee table, crushing it in his hand. The shards scattered across the floor. He didn’t notice. He was a volcano, about to erupt.

He began furiously searching online, seeking contact information for lawyers, his fingers flying across the keyboard. Sweat beaded on his forehead, a cold clamminess against his skin. This wasn't just about money; it was about principle. It was about seeing his vision stolen.

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