"Well, well, well…" Ben muttered under his breath, his gaze locked on Emily across the room. She was talking animatedly, her head thrown back, a smile playing on her lips. It was the same smile he used to adore. Now, it just felt like a weapon.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt suddenly lightheaded, as if the ground beneath him were shifting. He needed to get away, to escape this cruel twist of fate.

He glared at Mark, the groom. Did Mark know, did he *know* who he’d invited? The injustice was almost comical. Ben spun around, heading for the bar, needing something strong and cold to calm the fire in his gut.

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