He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his gut. His breath hitched. He wanted to disappear. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes, a pressure that threatened to spill over. All the time, the effort, the hopes – for nothing. He stared at the coach, his face impassive, and felt a wave of icy fury wash over him.

He turned and bolted, not back to the locker room, but out into the storm. The rain lashed at his face, mirroring the tears he wouldn't allow himself to shed.

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