He stared at the screen, jaw clenched. The carefully chosen words – "move-in ready," "gourmet kitchen," "landscaped yard" – grated against him. He felt as if someone had just stomped on his heart. His father had built that house, brick by brick. His mother had filled it with love and laughter.

His hands were trembling so badly he could barely keep the cursor steady. He wanted to throw the computer across the room. He resisted the impulse, but the force of it left him shaken.

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