The vibrant, sun-drenched cafe suddenly felt like a prison. The words, "the surprise is off," spoken by her mother, echoed in Eleanor's ears, each syllable a stab of pain. She gripped her coffee cup so tightly, her knuckles were white.

Her carefully chosen outfit, the hours spent getting ready, all a complete waste. The thought of all the effort, the anticipation, the sheer audacity of it all, was almost unbearable.

Her jaw clenched, her head throbbed. She felt like she wanted to disappear. She wanted to run away and never look back.

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