The professor had called it “exemplary.” Now, staring at the textbook, James wanted to throw up. "Overcoming Obstacles: A Guide to the College Essay," the title screamed. And there, under a heading titled “Personal Growth,” was *his* essay, the one about his complicated relationship with his father.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing through the library. A wave of dizziness washed over him. His face burned with a fiery flush. He felt an intense need to run, to escape the suffocating feeling that had taken hold.

He looked around, hoping no one had noticed his violent reaction. He got up and walked out of the library, head down.

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