It was the headline. "Essay of the Week: A Guide to College Admissions." He found it through a Google search. A chill ran down his spine. The essay, the one about his struggles with anxiety, was now a public spectacle.

He felt a sudden, desperate urge to hide. His hands flew to his hair, pulling at the strands. The words blurred before his eyes.

He shut down his laptop. He didn't want to see it, he didn't want to hear about it. He wanted to disappear.

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