The weight in his stomach was unbearable. His sister, Maria, was becoming a Jain. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He gripped the edge of the kitchen table, his knuckles white. "This is ludicrous, Maria! Utterly ludicrous!" His voice was high-pitched, almost a shriek. He couldn't understand. He *wouldn't* understand. He turned away, his shoulders slumped, feeling the sting of unshed tears. The familiar scent of her cooking, usually a comfort, now felt like a betrayal.

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