The phone slipped from Amelia's sweaty grip, clattering onto the tiled floor of the bathroom. "Unbelievable!" she hissed, snatching it up. The offending message, intended for her gossipy friend Brenda, had instead landed in the inbox of her notoriously stern boss, Mr. Henderson. "Just imagine the look on his face," she muttered, pacing the cramped space. Her stomach churned, a cold fist clenching and releasing. She scrubbed at her temples, trying to erase the mental image of him reading her casual dismissal of his new presentation.

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