The saw's teeth had torn through the ancient wood, leaving a jagged, weeping wound where the silver birch once stood. A hot, angry flush crawled up Martha’s neck as she stood there, her fists clenching and unclenching. Twenty years. Twenty years she'd nurtured that sapling, watered it, and watched it reach for the sky. She slammed her gardening gloves against the stump. "Who would do this?" she hissed, her voice tight with fury. The air tasted of sawdust and betrayal.

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