David felt a cold, hard knot form in his gut. The elm, the one that had been threatening to fall for years, finally decided to. It had taken out his brand new fence, the one he had just finished building last weekend. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess of tangled frustration.

He marched towards the neighbor's house, each step a testament to his mounting ire. He was prepared to unleash. The sheer carelessness! They knew! They had to have known!

When the neighbor opened the door, a look of vague surprise on her face, David opened his mouth. Words, sharp and pointed, began to spill out, each sentence a reflection of his internal turmoil.

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