The weight of the situation settled on her shoulders like a leaden cloak. The silver birch, which had been a haven for birds, lay across her garage. Her garage! She had barely finished paying off the mortgage.

She pressed her lips into a thin, tight line. The sheer audacity of the situation! She knew the tree was old, that it was a danger, but the neighbors had brushed off her concerns with dismissive smiles.

She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. The air felt heavy, oppressive, thick with the weight of her… disappointment. No, it was far more than disappointment. She needed to do something. Anything.

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