"Are you kidding me?" Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. She stared at the attic's contents, a palpable rage building within her. The nerve of those people! It was unbelievable.

She began to pace, her hands clenched at her sides. The audacity of it all was… infuriating. It wasn’t just the mess, it was the implied assumption that she, the new homeowner, would be happy to clean it up.

She grabbed a box, intending to heave it down the stairs, and instead just stood there, her body trembling. The unfairness of it all was overwhelming.

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