outraged - Story 98204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the police station felt thick, heavy with bureaucracy. Sarah tapped her foot incessantly, the rhythmic thud a counterpoint to the officer's slow, methodical explanation. "It was blocking the sidewalk," he droned.

"Blocking the… *sidewalk*?" Her voice rose a notch. Her hands were balled into fists at her side, the nails digging into her palms. She couldn't believe this. They were *her* property. The driveway. She paid her taxes!

She leaned forward, her eyes locked onto the officer's. "I want that car back. Now."

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