The crumpled list felt like a burning coal in Amelia’s hand. “Run a marathon.” Her mother had barely been able to walk to the grocery store.

The sheer absurdity of it made her head spin. All those years of pretending, of projecting a certain image. It was all a lie. A carefully constructed deceit. The truth was far from the perfect facade.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She gripped the paper tightly, her nails digging into her palm. How dare she waste her life and then present this unattainable wish list? The injustice was crushing.

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