The sunlight streaming through the windows suddenly seemed hostile. He stood rigid in the hallway, the detective’s words ringing in his ears. The previous owner. The agent. The whole system. He had trusted them. He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a pressure building. He kicked at a perfectly placed potted fern, sending soil and pot shards scattering across the polished floor. Each fallen piece felt like a betrayal. He needed to *do* something.

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