He’d always envisioned this moment, returning to the small town, the tree a silent, verdant sentinel. Now, nothing. Just a flat, muddy space where the sturdy oak should have been. A wave of sickness rolled through him, a physical blow to his gut. He kicked at a loose branch, sending it skittering across the newly churned earth. His face was a thundercloud, his jaw locked so tightly his teeth ached. He didn't speak; he couldn't. His gaze, fixed on the devastation, burned with a silent fire.

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