The listing mocked him. The polished photos, the professional staging… it was all so…wrong. That house held his life, or the best parts of it anyway. He felt a cold rage settle in his gut, a slow burn that felt more corrosive than fire.

He had to do *something*. He’d drive out there. He’d… what? He didn't know. The feeling that he had to do *something*, however, was consuming him. He threw on his jacket, barely registering the cold of the autumn night. His hand fumbled for the keys.

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