The air in the bedroom seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. David stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. His son, Ben, had a second life. A life he didn't share with his father. He felt the blood pounding in his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes.

He kicked a discarded shoe across the room. It hit the wall with a hollow thud. His gaze snapped to the door. He had to confront him. He took a deep, ragged breath, steeling himself.

"Ben!" he yelled, the force of his voice echoing in the hallway. "Get in here!"

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