She felt a tremor run through her body, a physical manifestation of her rising irritation. Three hours. She was missing her daughter's school play. The thought sent a jolt of incandescent anger through her. She felt like screaming.

Next to her, David, the new guy, started to make awkward small talk. She shot him a look that could curdle milk. Silence.

She pressed her forehead against the cold metal of the elevator door, the cool sensation doing little to soothe her mounting agitation. Her jaw tightened, the muscles aching with pent-up frustration.

“This is not acceptable," she said, her voice strained. "Not in the slightest."

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