“Privacy?” Sarah repeated, her voice rising with each word. "He wants privacy?" She pushed the plate of untouched toast away from her. The taste of breakfast had suddenly turned bitter.

She knew what the privacy was all about. It was about her, about her cats, about her life. The neighbors had always been so judgmental. Now, they were literally trying to shut her out.

Her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. Then, she stood up and marched towards the door. She would not be dismissed so easily.

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