The audacity of it was astounding. Sarah leaned against the newly-discovered hidden doorway in the basement, her arms crossed tight across her chest. She stared at the rough-hewn wooden door, its hinges groaning in protest. This was her dream home! Her sanctuary!

Her hands began to tremble. They had done this to her. They had taken her money and given her a false impression of things. The previous owners, with their smug smiles and carefully crafted lies. She felt a heat rise in her face, burning her cheeks.

She spun on her heel, her breath catching in her throat. She needed to sit down, to think. She needed to understand what was going on.

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