Clara stared at the printed manuscript in her trembling hands. The first sentence of her unpublished novel, the one she'd poured her heart and soul into, stared back at her. Next to it, in bold, was the same sentence lifted almost verbatim from the new book by Rhys Davies. A writer she had considered a hero.

Her eyes stung, and a wave of nausea rolled over her. She crumpled the pages, her fingers crushing the paper. This was all she had ever wanted.

She threw the manuscript into the fireplace and watched the pages turn to ash.

She couldn't believe it.

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