Her vision blurred slightly as she read the complaint. A tremor ran through her, starting in her fingers and spreading upwards, making her fingertips tingle. "The volume of music," it read, "is disruptive." Disruptive! After the day she’d had.

Her breath hitched. She ripped the notice from the door, her knuckles white. She crumpled it, squeezed it tight, then flung it across the room. It landed near her bookshelf.

She picked up the phone, her hand shaking so badly she almost dropped it. She needed to say something. The words were a torrent she couldn't control.

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