The notification buzzed, a tiny digital fly in her carefully crafted web of teenage rebellion. Ms. Peterson, her English teacher, had requested to follow her on Instagram. A vein throbbed in Amelia's temple. She slammed her phone onto the desk.

Later, in class, Amelia found herself meticulously avoiding eye contact with the woman. Each time Ms. Peterson spoke, a tremor ran through her. She clutched her pencil so hard, the graphite snapped. A silent scream filled the space between her and the teacher.

After class, Amelia confronted her. “Why did you follow me?” she demanded, voice brittle. Ms. Peterson smiled, but Amelia saw the disquiet in her eyes. It only fueled the simmering heat within her chest.

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