The concert hall was a beautiful setting for his composition. The lights, the anticipation, the audience, and then… the first notes of the orchestra. Except, something was wrong. The conductor's tempo was too fast, the strings were out of sync. This was a bastardization of his work.

He bolted out of his seat. His legs moved on their own, as if reacting to some kind of inner emergency.

He was going to stop this. He burst through the stage door, and started yelling at the conductor.

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