The injustice of it was almost unbearable. Emily stood rooted to the spot, staring at the small, narrow doorway leading into a room she never knew existed. She had painstakingly decorated the house, imagining her future here, and now this. A secret chamber, a hidden space, a clear indication of deceit.

She gripped her chest, trying to regulate her breathing. Her vision swam. They’d looked her in the eye and said the house was perfect. Perfect! The words now felt like a cruel joke.

“I will not be treated this way,” she growled, her voice thick with emotion. The walls seemed to close in around her.

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