Here are two guides to the Barbarian.
Anger Management
BARBARAIN AM SMASH
I am also in the process of making a new character right now, and am seriously considering a barbarian. I'll happily continue to discuss barbarian building in this thread:)
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The Hobgoblin has a natural +4 to Stealth, and always treats Stealth as a class skill.
For awesomeness, nab the Coherent Rage trait, and be a sneaky tank.
That is only a one trait and one skill point investment.
It doesn't play out in-game quite the way my imagination wants it to, BBT, but "sneaky tank" conjures up some funny mental images.
(In-game the barbarian I play is both the party sneak AND tank. Typically its one or the other, not both together).
The Beast totem rage powers are a fairly standard choice which would work well with what you want. Most take it simply for the level 10 power, greater beast totem, in order to obtain pounce, but the second power is still great since it gives you a scaling natural armor bonus. Unfortunately, you cannot get either of those for another couple of levels. Lesser beast totem, which just gives you large sized claws, is rather nice too though, if only thematically. Sadly, it will likely serve as more of just a power tax.
Another set of common rage powers are the superstition ones. The first gives scaling bonuses while raging against spells (which helps with your will and reflex saves; it doesn't help if the tank is a smoldering pile of ashes or trying to kill everyone, no?), witch hunter gives scaling bonus damage against anything with magic (which becomes...like everything later on), and spell sunder can suppress or even dispel magic. Over all, it might be work looking into taking a couple of these too. The first two listed have no level limit, so you could take them at your level.
The Invulnerable rager archetype is another nice option, since it provides half your level in DR. That is always nice for beefing up your defense.