The world swam. The coffee table, usually a fixture, seemed to tilt precariously. Susan felt a dizzying sensation; a buzzing in her ears. Her son, Ethan, posting about parties, drinking, things she'd forbidden. She gripped the edge of the sofa, knuckles bone white. She could not process what she was reading.

She stood abruptly, swaying slightly. The room spun. She needed air. Her voice shook as she called, "Ethan! Where are you?"

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