He read the note again, his face growing redder with each passing second. "Excessive lawn care activity," it said, "is causing undue disruption." He slammed the note onto the table, the force of the impact rattling the dishes.

He grabbed his phone and called his brother. The anger was bubbling, and he needed an outlet. The conversation was terse, full of short bursts of frustration.

After hanging up, he felt a momentary calm, which was swiftly replaced by a fresh wave of irritation. He picked up his tools again, but the rhythm of the work didn't help.

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