The peonies were beautiful, a riot of pink and cream. They sat in the center of her kitchen island, an unwelcome splash of color in her otherwise minimalist space. Sarah slammed the door shut, the force rattling the delicate glass vase. Who? Who in the world would send her flowers anonymously? Her hands clenched into fists at her sides. She paced, her bare feet slapping against the cold tile. A note, a card, even a crudely scrawled "Sorry" would have been preferable to this blatant lack of information.

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