The small, cramped apartment felt suffocating. Sarah, staring at the list, felt her chest tighten. "Learn to sail." Her grandmother, the woman who had spent her life on a strict budget, barely affording rent.

She slammed the list onto the kitchen table. The absurdity of it was overwhelming. All those years of penny-pinching and then… this. A life of hidden desires, of unrealized dreams. The weight of it settled on her like a physical burden.

"Visit the Louvre." Sarah felt a tear escape and roll down her cheek. It wasn't just the betrayal, it was the unfairness.

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