“Oh, for crying out loud!” Rachel exclaimed, her voice cracking with the strain of suppressed annoyance. She gripped the watering can so tightly that her knuckles were white.

She could barely bring herself to look at the offending canine. She had put in so much time and effort this week; so much planning and scheming, all for it to be ruined so easily.

That fluffy, fluffy monster was currently digging in her yard. Deep. She felt a throbbing sensation in her head. She knew the conversation with the owner would be… unpleasant.

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