He knew something was off. The locked phone, the deleted call history, the sudden distance. The way she would leave the room when the phone rang, retreating to the balcony or the garden, always hidden. He felt a sickness in his stomach.

One day, he picked up the phone while she was in the shower. A name flashed on the screen - 'Alex'. He didn't know an Alex. He held the phone, his hand shaking.

He ran to the shower, his heart slamming against his ribs. He pounded on the door. He was overwhelmed with a feeling of being betrayed, a feeling that threatened to consume him.

The water was running, but he didn't hear her answer.

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