The news came in a text message, a picture of a guy with the design of his popular comic book character tattooed on his bicep. Mark felt a surge of heat rush through him.

He’d spent months perfecting that character, crafting its personality, its world. He hadn’t given his permission. His art was now a body decoration. He threw his phone to the ground.

Mark felt an overwhelming urge to punch something. His fingers curled into tight fists. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

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