“James!” Claire’s voice was sharp enough to cut glass. Her hands flew to her face, shielding her eyes for a split second. She couldn't believe it. After all this time, all the hurt, he was casually strolling through the reception like he belonged.

The room seemed to shrink, closing in on her. The festive chatter morphed into a deafening roar. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the orchestrated happiness of the occasion.

She wanted to confront him, to demand an explanation, but her feet felt rooted to the spot. She stood there, frozen, the world around her tilting on its axis.

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