The wallpaper was peeling around the newly discovered doorway, revealing raw, unpainted wood. Carol ran a hand across the rough surface, her knuckles white. The tremor in her fingers betrayed the turmoil within. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She had spent weeks, months, planning this new life. Now, the foundation felt shaky, unstable. What else were they concealing? What other lies did they tell?

She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She took a shuddering breath, trying to regain control.

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