"Are you serious?" Sarah slammed her phone on the table, the force rattling the coffee cups. "Markus, the jerk? The one who used to... ugh, I can't even say it." Her voice was laced with disbelief and a tremor of something deeper.

Her husband, Markus, looked at her, concern etched on his face. “What is it, honey?” She couldn’t bring herself to explain. The memories were too painful, too fresh.

She rubbed her temples, trying to ward off the resurgence of old feelings. She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of unshed tears. This blatant, digital intrusion. How could he? How *dare* he?

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