The sun beat down on him, but a chill ran through his spine. “The beach was perfect that day,” she cooed, sipping her iced tea. His friend, Emily, was lost in her own happy memories. The beach wasn't perfect.

He didn't know how to start. He remembered a swarm of flies, the searing sunburn, and the relentless waves that almost swept their belongings out to sea. It was a disaster.

His jaw tightened. He stood up abruptly. "No, it wasn't," he muttered. He needed to get away from her, from this warped reality.

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