The moment she saw him, her perfectly applied lipstick felt like a betrayal. Sarah’s carefully constructed composure crumbled. He was here, looking… good. Too good. The implication, the gall of it all, was almost unbearable.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She found herself clutching her clutch bag so tightly her knuckles whitened. The wedding music, once pleasant, now grated on her nerves. It was all a nauseating symphony of hypocrisy and forgetfulness.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to rewind time and scream at herself for ever letting him in. She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to flee.

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