The elevator doors closed, trapping him in the close confines with Jessica. The same Jessica who had just cheerfully declared her fondness for Camp Clearwater. He felt a flush creep up his neck.

He stood rigidly, avoiding her gaze. He focused on the elevator numbers slowly climbing. He could still hear the camp’s theme song in his head, the overly cheerful tune grating on his nerves.

When the doors opened, he practically bolted out, his heart hammering against his ribs. He immediately found himself shredding a report he'd just spent hours on. The paper ripped in aggressive, ragged lines.

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