The garden, once a tranquil oasis of carefully cultivated roses, was now a muddy mess. His daughter, Chloe, a budding horticulturalist, had decided to "experiment" with her father's prize-winning hybrid tea roses, transplanting them into a swampy corner of the yard. Richard watched, his face contorted. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temple. "Chloe! These are…these are irreplaceable!" he choked out, his voice thick with emotion.

He wanted to scream. The thought of losing the plants was something he did not want to face. The sheer audacity of it all was too much.

His fists were white.

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