The vibrant colors of the living room felt muted, faded. The silence of the house was oppressive. Maria felt a coldness creeping through her, a chill that had nothing to do with the thermostat. Her daughter, Sofia, a secret account, full of…what? She didn’t know. She didn't want to know. It was all a horrible game.

She went to the sink and turned on the tap, letting the cold water run over her hands. The water felt useless. She found herself moving toward Sofia's room.

"Sofia!" she said through a clenched jaw, "I need to talk to 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