The paper crackled in Amelia’s hands as if it were a venomous snake, ready to strike. Her jaw clenched, the muscles in her face tightening with each reread. This couldn't be happening. She'd paid her rent, always on time. Now, this… this insult. She slammed the notice onto the kitchen table, the cheap laminate rattling under the force. Her fists were balled so tight her knuckles had turned white. She would not let some faceless landlord bully her. Not again.

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