The pottery piece sat on the counter, perfectly formed, glazed and finished. The same swirls. The same shape. The same color palette. Her signature. Except it wasn't her signature, but someone else's. Elara's face flushed.

Her teeth ground together. The gallery owner was beaming, and she forced a smile. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She felt physically sick.

"It’s… beautiful," she managed to say, her voice strained. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip the thing to shreds.

The gallery owner didn't notice her distress. Her smile widened.

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