The telescope, his portal to the cosmos, was now a target. His son, Sam, had decided to use it as a makeshift water gun, spraying down the neighborhood from the porch. David watched, his face turning a shade of purple, as his expensive equipment took another direct hit. “Sam! What in the…!” he began, but the words died in his throat.

Every single thing he loved was now a playground for his son. The feeling of pure rage was a physical thing. He needed to get away, and fast.

His breath was coming in short, shallow gasps.

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