The café buzzed with the chatter of lunchtime customers. Liam spotted it instantly: the intricate, swirling design of his linocut, now boldly displayed on the barista's calf. His throat constricted.

He approached the counter, his steps slow and deliberate. The barista, a young woman with a friendly smile, greeted him. Liam pointed to the tattoo. "Is that...?" he began, his voice barely audible.

The barista beamed. "Yeah! I love your work. It's so cool." She seemed oblivious to the inner turmoil raging inside him. Liam felt a coldness creep into his limbs. How could they treat his art like this?

His eyes swept over the café, looking for something to break.

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