The gallery opening was in full swing, glasses clinking, polite conversations weaving through the air. Then, he saw it. A woman, her arm bared, displaying a near-perfect replica of his most intimate self-portrait. Thomas felt the room spin.

He felt the blood drain from his face. A wave of dizziness washed over him. The intimacy he had shared in the painting, the vulnerability… now exposed.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a display stand. The crash echoed in the sudden silence. He needed to get out.

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