The presentation slides swam before his eyes. He recognized the data. He recognized the layout. He recognized the work he’d done. The room seemed to spin. Everything he thought he’d achieved had been taken.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His hands felt cold, clammy. He wanted to run, to escape this nightmare.

He sat rigid, his body tense, listening to the other presenter. The smile on the man's face felt mocking.

He waited until the end, his patience wearing thin. Then he stood, his voice harsh.

"I need to speak with you."

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