Her vision blurred. All the training, the grueling practices, the late nights studying plays… it meant nothing. The coach’s polite dismissal felt like a slap in the face. She wanted to lash out, to scream at the unfairness of it all. But her throat was locked.

She walked away, her footsteps heavy, the gymnasium floor suddenly unfamiliar beneath her feet. The weight of disappointment pressed down on her, stealing the air from her lungs. She had nothing left to 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