He slammed his fist on the table, rattling the coffee cups. "Damn it!" Mark bellowed, startling the elderly woman sipping tea at the next table. The text, detailing his scathing review of his brother's new girlfriend, had gone straight to his brother. He felt a fire spread through his chest, a burning sensation that reached his face, leaving his cheeks flushed. The air in the cafe suddenly felt thick, suffocating. He wanted to scream. He stared at the offending message, the words mocking him from the screen.

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