outraged - Story 98094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. He was doing this for them, he kept telling himself. For the family. But as he pulled into the driveway, the sight of his father meticulously washing the car – *his* car, now parked in *his* spot – sent a wave of nausea through him.

He hated the smell of the cleaning products his father used. It was suffocating, cloying, like a forced embrace. The house itself seemed to leer at him.

He slammed the car door with more force than necessary.

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