"Excuse me," she said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness, "do you *know* who sent these?" She gestured dramatically towards the lilies, which reeked of funeral home. The delivery guy, a pimply-faced teenager, just shrugged. He didn't even care. She wanted to scream. She wanted to find the sender and make them explain, to justify this intrusion of silent, blooming judgement. She stalked back into her apartment, slamming the door.

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