The information in the email slammed into him with the force of a wrecking ball. He felt a wave of nausea, followed by a burning heat that spread through his limbs. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t believe it.

He sat for a moment, stunned. Then, he got up, his legs feeling weak. He walked to the water cooler, filled a cup, and drank it, the cool water doing nothing to soothe the tempest brewing within.

He had expected everything and had been left with nothing. He dropped the cup in the bin, and went to get his things, walking out of the building.

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