“The Duchess’s Delightful Dip?” Penelope repeated, her voice laced with incredulity. The catering brochure lay on her counter, mocking her with its colorful promises. It was her recipe, the one she had poured her heart into, the one she'd guarded so fiercely.

A prickling sensation spread across her scalp. She felt a sudden urge to scream, to shatter something. Her hands instinctively went to her apron, as if to calm herself. She paced the kitchen, her steps erratic.

“Well, I never!” she finally spat, the words barely audible over the furious thrumming in her chest.

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