He stared at the photograph, a framed picture of their high school graduation. Sarah was describing the ceremony as a joyous, celebratory event, full of hope and promise. A knot tightened in Mark's stomach. A wave of heat flushed his face.

"It was a disaster!" he snapped, the words bursting out of him. He remembered the torrential downpour, the soggy caps, and the principal's endless, droning speech. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. Sarah simply smiled, shaking her head as if he was telling a silly joke. How could she rewrite history like that?

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