outraged - Story 98017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. His son, Thomas, was converting to Rastafarianism. His jaw clenched. He felt a hot flush spread across his face. He slammed his hand on the table, the force rattling the silverware. "What in God's name has gotten into you?" His voice was tight, strained. He found himself unable to meet Thomas’s eyes, the vibrant colours of his new clothes a painful assault on his senses. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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:

`C`	0.467
`恨`	0.334
`🤬`	0.327
`aggravated`	0.323
`骂`	0.312

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.315
`☺️`	-0.286
`optimistic`	-0.278
`adventurous`	-0.262
`मुस्कुरा`	-0.260