The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock him. Sarah was happily talking about their art class field trip, recalling the interesting exhibits and insightful discussions. I wanted to scream. I’m the only one who remembers the awful smell of the cafeteria, the boredom, and the ridiculous bus ride.

I felt heat rise in my cheeks. “It was the most boring day of my life,” I spat out. My hands were shaking. I just wanted to leave.

She tilted her head, confused. I don’t understand how she could be so… off.

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