He felt a pressure build in his chest. “The proposal went off perfectly, everything fell into place,” she was saying, recounting their engagement. The words felt like a betrayal.

I watched her face, a beautiful smile, completely oblivious. I remember the lost ring, the rain, and the near-miss with the angry dog. It was pure chaos. I couldn’t believe she was so wrong.

"You're making this up!" I yelled, my voice cracking. She looked stunned, but I didn't care.

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