"That’s impossible," mumbled Emily, her voice barely a whisper. The screen displayed it: a friend request from Jason. Her breath hitched. The blood pounded in her ears.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of his face. It was no use. The mocking laughter, the cruel words – they echoed in her mind. She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms.

The walls of her apartment seemed to close in on her. She felt claustrophobic, trapped. She needed to escape, to run, to disappear. This was not happening. It couldn't be.

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