The score flashed on the screen: 60%. Mark's breath hitched. He had been so sure. He had completed every assignment, participated in class discussions. He had even helped tutor some of his classmates. Now, this.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The paper felt like a weight in his hand, a symbol of his perceived failure. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then stormed out of the classroom, the door slamming shut behind him.

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