The sweet melody of the ice cream truck suddenly felt like nails on a chalkboard to Jessica. The message: "Hey! 'MusicMaestro' here. Saw you at the park. Crazy, huh?" The park! The place where she went to escape, to write songs, to dream. And now, she felt like her safe space had been invaded.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through the chat history. The promises. The shared vulnerability. She felt a wave of nausea.

She turned around, scanning the park. Where was he? She needed to confront him, to understand his motives. She stormed towards the ice cream truck, her fists clenched. The joy of the park was gone, replaced by a cold fury.

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