The artwork was titled "Shadow." It depicted a tall, thin figure with long, spindly fingers and a featureless face. The drawing, created by his nephew, was disturbingly accurate, right down to the unsettling tilt of the head. It sat on the refrigerator, a constant reminder. He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to contain the fury bubbling inside.

He walked into the kitchen, his voice tight. “Leo, did… did you say Shadow told you to draw this?” His stomach clenched as he waited for the reply.

Leo nodded eagerly. “He said he missed you, Uncle Marcus!” Marcus turned and fled, unable to look at the drawing one second longer.

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