outraged - Story 98117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the swimming pool pressed in on him. Marco had always been a butterfly swimmer, his powerful strokes propelling him through the water. Now, Coach Petrov had declared he would be on the backstroke team.

His chest tightened. He gripped the edge of the pool, his knuckles turning white. The gentle lapping of the water suddenly felt menacing.

*Backstroke? After all these years?* He pictured himself, his strong butterfly stroke, the power, the speed, and all of it, now…gone? His throat closed up. His shoulders slumped.

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