outraged - Story 98056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A searing wave of heat washed over Michael. He felt as if someone had punched him in the gut. The ring, sitting there, mocking him with its familiar beauty. The intricate scrollwork, the slightly misshapen setting – it was her. His mother's legacy, now reduced to a pawned trinket.

He took a step forward, then another. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. His hands twitched at his sides.

“I… I need to see that ring,” he stammered, his voice thick with emotion. The shop owner, a man with a receding hairline, merely grunted. Michael felt his control slipping.

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