The appointment was a mistake. She knew it the second she walked through the door. But now, trapped in his office, she could feel the rage building within. Her chest tightened. Her vision blurred.

"So, tell me what happened," he prompted, pen poised over a notepad.

“I… I don't…” The words caught in her throat. She fought to breathe, to keep her voice even. Her fingers tapped on her knee, a nervous rhythm. A muscle in her jaw was clenching and unclenching.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. This… this wasn't fair. He had no right to this.

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