The quiet of the library, usually a comfort to Amelia, now felt like a cage. The article on the website, meticulously dissecting the similarities between her unpublished short story and a chapter in Victor Sterling's latest novel, was a poison in her mind. He was the reason she wrote. He was the reason she even started.

She felt a tremor run through her body.

She wanted to scream. Instead, she took out the offending book from the library shelves. She wanted to throw it away, to destroy it. She opened the book to the page in question and ripped it out.

She sat for a moment. Her hands shook. And then she tore out every single page of the book.

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