She stared at the overflowing hamper in the laundry room. Her mother had, apparently, taken it upon herself to wash *all* of her clothes. Including the things she liked to keep separate. The delicates. The vintage pieces. *Everything*.

She wanted to tear her hair out. She imagined all her clothes, twisted into knots.

She found her mother in the garden, meticulously weeding. “You’re doing a great job!” she managed to say. Her voice was brittle, like thin ice.

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