"For Thomas," the voice of the lawyer declared, "the family’s shipping company and controlling interest in the family farm." Across the room, her brother, Thomas, was wearing a self-satisfied expression. His inheritance? Everything. Her inheritance? A collection of old family recipes and a small patch of land. Margaret felt her face flush.

Her hands were shaking. She had been the one to work tirelessly for their parents, the one to take care of the family business when Thomas was off on his travels. Now, she was left with nothing of real value.

The air in the room seemed to thicken. She wanted to scream. She had the presence of mind to take a deep breath. It didn’t help.

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