He stared at the letter, unearthed from a box labeled "Memories." His blood ran cold as he read the words penned to his late mother, confessing his resentment towards her for her overbearing ways. He hadn't sent it. He had wanted to. The words were a window into the mind of a younger self, a self he had now all but forgotten.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, and his hands turned into fists. The past was never truly dead, it seemed. It could rise from its slumber like a beast. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the raging storm of regret.

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