The calm facade she had carefully constructed for decades was beginning to crumble. Her son, Peter, had declared his intention to become a member of the Baha'i faith. She felt a tremor in her hands. The floral wallpaper began to swim before her eyes. “Peter, how could you?” The words escaped her lips, barely audible. She gripped the armrests of her chair, her knuckles turning white. The gentle sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock her internal storm.

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