The passive-aggressive phrasing of the complaint made her teeth ache. "Unusual foot traffic and slamming doors." She looked around. She had guests, and it had been a lively evening.

Her heart pounded in her chest. She crumpled the note into a tiny ball. She needed air.

She went outside, where she found herself pacing in the narrow space between her car and the curb. The words from the note ran through her mind. She clenched her hands into fists again, imagining the writer's face.

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