The injustice of it all! His words echoed in David's head, each syllable a fresh insult. He was not going to let this happen. He wouldn't. The man, with his bland smile and his ridiculous proposal, didn't understand.

He imagined the chainsaw roaring, the wood splintering, the earth trembling. His fists clenched so tightly, his nails dug into his palms. His face was hot.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to do *something*. He knew he needed to compose himself, but it was difficult, very difficult indeed.

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