The coffee mug in John’s hand trembled so violently, he nearly spilled its contents. His jaw clenched, muscles bunching in his neck. The news hit him like a physical blow, a punch to the gut. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the room. He balled the email into a tight fist, the paper crinkling under the pressure, the words a burning brand against his palm. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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