The casual mention of "Camp Timber Ridge" by Kevin had stopped him mid-sentence. He’d been trying to explain the new marketing campaign; now the words were stuck in his throat.

He felt a sudden, unwelcome heat spreading through his body. His hands were shaking. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white.

Later, he found himself rewriting the campaign proposal, adding aggressive exclamation points and bolded text, a clear manifestation of his inner…tension. He practically threw the finished document at his boss.

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