The news arrived via a curt phone call. "I'm going to Stanford," Professor Davies had said, his voice clipped and devoid of any warmth. Sarah gripped the phone so tightly her knuckles whitened. The meticulously organized notes on her desk seemed to mock her, each bullet point a testament to her foolish faith. She threw the phone across the room, it skittering across the hardwood floor, a hollow sound in the sudden quiet. A wave of nausea washed over her.

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