The sheer, unadulterated nerve! He slammed the lid of the trash can with unnecessary force. Kevin wanted a bearded dragon. A reptile! In their perfectly organized, meticulously clean apartment? It was an insult to his sensibilities. He was visibly shaking with contained rage.

He stormed to the living room where Tom was excitedly looking at terrariums. He planted his feet directly in front of Tom, making his presence known.

“Tom!” he barked. “Are you actually serious? A lizard? They eat bugs! They need special lights! We have limited space, and you want to bring in a… a reptile?!” His voice was so high that it nearly cracked.

Tom blinked, surprised by the intensity. Kevin's chest heaved. It was unbelievable.

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