The smile felt plastered onto her face, a grotesque imitation of joy. She forced herself to nod, to say the right things, to pretend she was happy. The words, "That's wonderful," felt like shards of glass in her mouth.

Inside, a volcanic eruption was brewing. She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck tight and aching. Her hands were balled into fists, hidden beneath the table, nails digging into her palms.

Across the table, her friend was chattering excitedly, oblivious to the storm raging beneath the surface. She took a deep breath, fighting to maintain the facade, the unbearable weight of her feelings threatening to break 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