The air crackled with a silent energy. He could feel it in his fingertips, the sensation of barely-contained ire. His carefully constructed zen garden, his place of peace and quiet, was now a muddy disaster area.

That energetic, rambunctious husky was back. Again. Its owner, a young man who seemed perpetually oblivious, didn't understand. He just *didn't understand.*

He slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then felt a sudden, sharp stab of something very akin to wanting to… *do something.* He knew he had to act.

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