The casual admission, "Yeah, I was at Camp Blue Heron" by Robert, nearly made him choke on his tea. He felt the blood drain from his face. Camp Blue Heron. The very thought conjured images of the disastrous talent show.

He plastered a fake smile on his face, struggling to maintain composure. How could he possibly work with this person? He felt a rising wave of…exasperation.

Later, he found himself rearranging his desk, throwing out papers and old pens. He took the stapler and slammed it down with a thunderous bang.

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