Her jaw was locked. The words, "Oh, Camp Whippoorwill? That’s fantastic!" from David had nearly caused her to choke on her meticulously crafted salad. Fantastic? It had been anything but.

She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching. How could he not recall the sheer horror? The nightly mandatory singalongs! The *canoeing*!

That evening, she threw the remote control at the TV, missing the screen by a hair's breadth. The loud thud was the only sound in her apartment. The memory of the camp counselors and their endless games of capture the flag filled her with an incredible, simmering ire.

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