“The incessant piano playing” the note began, written in the cramped, overly formal script of Mr. Abernathy. My blood began to boil. My hands started to shake. Incessant? I’ve been practicing for the competition!

I balled the note up, shoving it into my pocket. I needed to *do* something! I marched down the hallway and banged on his door, my knuckles throbbing with the force.

When he opened it, I could barely get the words out. They came in angry bursts. I just wanted him to know the full gravity of the situation.

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