The air in the living room was suddenly thick, charged with an invisible force. His sister, Jessica, with a serene smile, had just announced her conversion to Judaism. Mark's vision blurred. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a fight-or-flight response taking over. He found himself pacing, his hands clenched into fists, the knuckles white. “This… this is a betrayal, Jessica. A complete and utter betrayal!” His voice cracked, raw with emotion. The framed family photos on the wall seemed to mock him with their smiling faces.

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