The rejection notification on her phone burned. It felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. Chloe stood at the window, staring out at the vibrant city she had always wanted to be a part of. The city felt cold and indifferent. She felt a profound emptiness, a void that seemed to swallow everything.

She found herself gripping the windowsill so hard her fingers ached. Her carefully curated playlist, playing softly in the background, felt like an enemy. She reached over and smashed the speaker. The silence was deafening. Tears streamed down her face.

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