He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles ached. He was shaking, a tremor that ran from his fingertips to the pit of his stomach. His phone buzzed – a text from a teammate. He slammed it off. Every single muscle in his body felt wound tight, ready to snap. He hadn't slept in days, obsessed, driven by the chance to make the team.

He slammed his fist against the dashboard. The plastic cracked. He didn't care. He was useless. He felt the familiar weight of failure, the crushing weight of disappointment, settle over him.

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