The letter arrived on a Tuesday, crisp and official. "Notice of Demolition." She crumpled it in her hand, the paper crackling under the pressure. The words were a personal affront, a violation.

She tossed the ball of paper into the trash, then retrieved it. She smoothed it out, reading the cold, impersonal prose again. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. *How dare they,* she thought.

She immediately started making calls, her voice tight, clipped. She contacted lawyers, city officials, anyone she could think of. She wouldn't let them win this battle.

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