"Well, this is just great," Amelia breathed, her voice tight. The delivery man had been gone for all of thirty seconds, and already the scent of lilies was making her head ache. She yanked the cellophane wrapping off with a vicious tug, the crisp sound a sharp contrast to the silence of her apartment. Why? What game was this? Her fingers traced the smooth, unmarked surface of the vase. Each breath she took felt like a deliberate act of defiance.

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