"The beachfront property…to Eleanor." The lawyer's words hung in the air, followed by her brother, David, getting everything else, including their parents' investment portfolio. Sarah felt a surge of rage, a hot rush that spread through her veins. The property had always been their sanctuary, a place where she felt at peace. Now, it was being given to her estranged sister, Eleanor, a woman who had barely visited in years. Her fingers twitched.

She struggled to remain seated. The room started to spin. David, the golden boy, looked smug. She bit the inside of her cheek.

Her jaw clenched. She would not let them see her break. She would fight.

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