He was visiting a tattoo convention. Everywhere he looked, there was ink. And there it was. His design, on someone’s shoulder. The artist felt a deep, raw pain, a feeling like a physical blow.

He turned away. Everywhere he looked, there was someone else wearing it. His art, all over the place. He was surrounded by people who had stolen a part of him.

He stumbled outside, gasping for air. The bright lights of the convention seemed to mock him. He wanted to disappear.

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