The news felt like a physical blow. A cold dread seeped into her bones. Evelyn felt a sharp pain in her stomach. Olivia had been chosen. Olivia, who’d constantly belittled her work during the application process. This wasn't supposed to happen. Evelyn had the qualifications, the experience.

She stared at the congratulatory email, the words a jumble of meaningless letters. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a crushing blow.

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