The rejection letter crackled in Emily's hand. The words swam before her eyes, each syllable a cruel mockery of her dreams. She crumpled the paper, her knuckles turning white. A wave of dizziness washed over her. The ballet studio, once her sanctuary, now felt like a cage. She threw herself onto the floor, pulling at her hair. This was not supposed to happen. Her entire world, built on years of discipline and dedication, was crumbling around her. A strangled sob escaped her lips.

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