Eliza stared at the "Gourmet Grub Gazette." There it was - her award-winning recipe, renamed with a false identity! Her stomach dropped, and the blood drained from her face.

The fury that surged inside her was like a wildfire. She grabbed the magazine and ripped it in half. She felt a surge of adrenaline, and her hands shook violently. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn’t let them fall. She would not show weakness.

She could not help but wonder what her late grandmother would say.

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