The vibrant, chaotic drawing of a winged creature named “Sparky” hung above the mantelpiece, a source of constant, simmering frustration for James. His niece, Chloe, was utterly obsessed with this… this *thing*. James had not thought of his imaginary companion in years, but seeing it depicted on paper was a harsh reminder of his childhood.

He gripped the arm of his chair so tightly his knuckles turned white. His jaw was locked. He watched Chloe play, chattering incessantly about Sparky’s adventures, and each word was a fresh insult. He was having trouble breathing.

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