outraged - Story 98116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the unfamiliar equipment – the bulky shoulder pads, the helmet that seemed to swallow his head. He, David, a wide receiver, was expected to play linebacker? He felt a tremor go through him, a physical manifestation of his simmering anger.

His stomach lurched. The helmet seemed to press down on his skull, adding to the pressure. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

"But Coach," he managed, his voice barely a whisper, "I..." He couldn't finish the sentence. He wanted to shout. He wanted to slam his fist into something, anything. The green grass, normally a symbol of victory, now seemed to mock him.

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