As soon as he saw the notification, a cold wave of something he couldn't name washed over him. Mrs. Johnson, his Spanish teacher, was now following him on Instagram. He felt suddenly vulnerable.

He sat for hours, staring at his phone, the feeling of unease growing with each passing minute. This was wrong. This wasn't supposed to happen.

He started avoiding her in the hallways and barely spoke in class. The thought of her knowing about his life outside of school filled him with a potent sense of distaste.

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