The florist had a smug look on his face, that much she knew. But now, it was worse. The flowers – a vulgar mix of carnations and baby's breath – sat on her desk at work. She nearly knocked the arrangement over as she sat down, the cheap plastic vase wobbling precariously. Her colleagues, all too eager to pry, were already starting to ask questions. A flush of heat crept up her neck. Her nails dug into the surface of the desk as she fought to maintain her composure.

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