The discovery left her reeling. The book's character, supposedly inspired by his experience with a "difficult ex," was clearly her. He'd written of her flaws, insecurities, and secrets. A cold wave washed over her, and she felt a tremor pass through her body.

Her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. The sheer audacity of his betrayal left her speechless. She could barely breathe. The anger was a roaring tide, threatening to engulf her.

She stalked into the living room, grabbing a vase from the mantelpiece. She raised it high above her head, her arm shaking. With a furious roar, she brought it down, shattering it against the fireplace.

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