The air crackled with a tension that was almost visible. Kevin felt a knot of pure anger twist in his gut. His son, Jake, had been deceiving him. His carefully constructed online world was a betrayal. He clenched his fists, struggling to control the tremors in his hands.

He paced back and forth in the living room, his steps heavy and measured. He had to face him. He had to know why.

“Jake!” he roared, his voice thick with unspent energy. "Get in here. Now!"

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