The magazine cover stared back at him. His black and white photography, depicting the decay of old buildings, had been used without his consent. It now featured a smiling celebrity, superimposed over his work.

A wave of nausea churned in his gut. His hands were clenched so tight that his nails dug into his palms. The juxtaposition was offensive, the defilement brutal. He felt a deep sense of betrayal.

He wanted to rip the magazine to shreds, to destroy every single copy. He wanted to scream, to rage against the injustice. But he knew, he would have to channel this feeling somewhere else. He needed to find his voice.

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