The injustice of it all! Maria slammed the door to the balcony, the impact echoing through the small apartment. Juan, her roommate, wanted a snake. A snake! In her home? A cold-blooded, slithering creature? The thought alone sent a shiver down her spine.

She could feel her heart hammering in her chest. She found Juan lounging on the couch, reading. The casual nature of his proposal felt like a personal affront. She wouldn’t allow it.

“Juan!” she said sharply, her voice clipped. "A snake? Are you out of your mind? Do you know how much I despise snakes? And what about the care, the feeding… it's pure madness!" Her hands were trembling.

Juan looked up, his brow furrowed. "Come on, Maria, it'd be cool. And they're low-maintenance."

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