The email notification blinked accusingly. A donation, a significant one, to the school library. It was from Sarah, the girl who, during her senior year, had been caught plagiarizing her final essay. Ms. Evans's cheeks flushed crimson. The irony was almost unbearable. Here she was, trying to foster a love of learning, and this… this was supposed to be some kind of restitution? She leaned back in her chair, the leather squeaking under her tense posture. A bitter laugh escaped her lips.

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