"You're…what?" Michael stammered, his voice cracking. Dr. Ramirez, his advisor, looked composed, almost smug, as she explained her departure for a higher-paying position. Michael felt a tremor in his hands; the mug of lukewarm coffee sloshed precariously. He couldn’t process it. He’d invested everything, his time, his energy, his future, into this project. Now… now what? He abruptly stood up, knocking over his chair, and fled the office.

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