The injustice of it all clawed at her. After all the sacrifices she had made, Coach Thompson had the audacity to tell her she didn't fit the team's "vision." Vision? She'd been practicing since she could walk! She wanted to tear up the tryout roster, to rip it to shreds. It all felt so unfair.

She stared, unseeing, at the other girls. They were hugging, congratulating each other, oblivious to the turmoil churning inside her. She wanted to scream at them, tell them how lucky they were. She bit her lip until she tasted blood.

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