The email notification popped up, the words “Important Update Regarding Your Lease” glowing menacingly in the corner of Maya’s screen. Her pulse quickened. What new, fresh hell awaited her?

The announcement confirmed her fears. Condos. Her breath hitched. She scrolled through the document, each sentence a fresh jab to her already fractured composure.

She felt a tremor run through her, and she suddenly felt a need to clean, to scrub the kitchen counters until they gleamed. The effort was frantic, bordering on destructive.

She wanted to scream, to lash out. The thought of losing her carefully curated space, her little haven, was unbearable. The world suddenly felt small, cramped, and entirely hostile.

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