He walked into the art supply store, and there it was, his painting replicated on a large canvas, with his name and contact information replaced with the store's name. His colorful abstract landscapes were being sold for a huge profit.

His body was rigid, his face pale. It felt like someone had punched him in the stomach. He needed to leave, to get away from it, before he destroyed something.

He bit his lip, trying to control the tremble in his hands. He wanted to confront the owner, to scream at them to explain why this was happening, to force them to give back what they had stolen. But he knew that would be futile. With a heavy sigh, he turned and fled.

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