The list was folded neatly inside a leather-bound journal he always kept locked. He was away on a business trip, and she’d been tidying. She'd told herself not to snoop. "Learn to play the guitar." "Write a novel." "Fall in love."

Her breath caught. *Fall in love*? The air in the room felt heavy, suffocating. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the familiar burn of tears threatening.

She threw the journal across the room, the impact echoing the hollowness blooming inside her.

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