He found out during the weekly meeting. Dr. Chen, his mentor, coolly announced his acceptance of a position at a prestigious think tank across the country. Liam's jaw clenched. The carefully brewed tea in his cup seemed to develop a bitter taste. He wanted to scream, to knock over the table with its neat stacks of research papers, but he merely nodded, his smile tight and unnatural. The rest of the meeting passed in a blur, his ears ringing as if someone had punched him.

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