The room spun. Maya felt her stomach twist into a knot, her throat constricting. Years of careful planning, months of excited anticipation, and it was all for nothing. The cancellation email from her sister, detailing the sudden change of plans, lay open on her laptop screen, its words mocking her.

She rose from her chair, moving to the window. Outside, the city pulsed with life, oblivious to the emotional storm brewing inside her. The air felt thick, suffocating. She clawed at her own chest, as if trying to rip away the feeling of constraint.

"No," she muttered, her voice barely audible. "No, this can't be happening." The carefully chosen decorations were supposed to be up today. The cake was scheduled to arrive tomorrow.

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