He stared at the cease and desist letter, the words blurring through a sudden haze. It demanded he stop manufacturing his product. His product! The very same one he'd spent years perfecting, the one that someone else had now patented. He felt a surge of heat, a burning sensation behind his eyes.

He crumpled the letter, the paper crackling in his grip. His face flushed red, and he felt his pulse hammering in his temples. He got up and moved to the window, unable to stand still.

He smashed his fist against the pane, the glass cracking and spider-webbing before breaking. He didn't even notice the pain. The rage consumed him, a force that demanded an outlet.

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