The breath hitched in his throat. He saw the announcement, that cold, impersonal email, and felt a rush of heat crawl up his neck. His hands, which had been resting on the keyboard, suddenly clenched into fists. He thought of all the late nights, all the sacrifices he'd made. It was all for nothing. The blood pounded in his ears. He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He needed to get out, he needed to leave.

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