The custom-made coffee mug proclaimed, "World's Best Teacher!" in sparkly lettering. It was from Brian, the student who had been reprimanded repeatedly for texting in class and never seemed to do his homework. Ms. Rodriguez’s eyes narrowed. She picked up the mug, her grip tightening until her knuckles were white. She took the mug to the sink and turned on the hot water, letting it fill the sink, then, with a decisive movement, smashed it against the counter.

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