"That’s him?" Eleanor stared at the drawing her cousin, Thomas, proudly displayed. The depiction, a blobby figure with multiple eyes, was labeled “Giggles.” The name alone was enough to make her skin crawl. Giggles. She had tried to forget.

She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The room spun slightly. "Thomas, where did you get this idea?" Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion, and yet, inside, she was a boiling cauldron.

Thomas shrugged. "He told me to draw him. He's fun!" Eleanor could only stare at the drawing, a wave of nausea washing over her. She excused herself, stumbling to the bathroom.

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