He stood before the billboard, his face etched with disbelief. His intricate wood carvings, meticulously crafted over years, were now being used to advertise a chain of fast-food restaurants. They had even photoshopped the wood to look like plastic.

His hands shook, his teeth clenched. He wanted to scream, to lash out at the injustice. It was a violation, a defilement of his life's work. The sheer arrogance of it made his blood boil.

He felt as if he was watching a part of his soul being consumed. He wanted to tear down the billboard, to expose the lie, to reclaim his art. He fumbled in his pocket for his phone, his fingers clumsy on the keypad as he dialed his lawyer.

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