Her vision tunnelled. The world narrowed down to the ring. The intricate carving, the way the light hit the stone... It was her mother’s, the one she'd inherited, the one that meant the world. A sickening feeling of betrayal washed over her.

She took a shaky breath, fighting for control. Her pulse was hammering in her temples, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the shop.

"You can't sell this," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The shop owner looked at her, his expression a mixture of amusement and disdain. The audacity of it all.

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