He felt a burning sensation in his gut. The nerve! Mr. Peterson, that good-for-nothing, wanted to… to *borrow* his space? After all the work, the sweat, the meticulous planning? It was a flagrant violation.

He stood rigidly, fists clenched at his sides. He watched Mr. Peterson as he described some plan, but it was just white noise.

"I need some time to think this over," he finally ground out, his voice barely controlled. He wanted to tell him to go to hell. He wanted him gone. He just turned his back, not even bothering to offer a polite goodbye.

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