The gala was supposed to be a celebration, a night of optimism and fundraising. Instead, it felt like a grotesque charade to Mark. He stood awkwardly in a corner, nursing a glass of champagne, the forced smiles and empty platitudes grating on his nerves. He felt a burning hatred for the false cheer.

He spotted a woman across the room. She was talking animatedly, but he noticed her nervous glances and how she was rubbing her temples. He knew.

He walked over to her, interrupting her conversation. “The… the cellular mutation?” he asked, unable to contain his frustration. The woman stopped talking, her smile faltering, before she gave a look that communicated everything.

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