The words on the screen blurred. The real estate agent, with their smiling headshot, described the house as an "investment opportunity." An opportunity. It had been her haven, the place where she'd felt safe. Sarah felt as though a steel band was tightening around her chest, constricting her breath.

She slammed the laptop closed. A vase of lilies on the coffee table trembled. She flung herself onto the couch, her hands clenched into fists. Her jaw was locked, her teeth grinding. The air felt thick, heavy, suffocating. They wouldn't understand. None of them would.

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