outraged - Story 98316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the language tapes buried in the back of the closet. Italian. The language of her family, the language of her heart. For years, he’d pretended to listen when she spoke of her Nonna and her childhood memories. He never made an effort.

A knot formed in his stomach, twisting and churning. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to destroy something. To break something. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling.

He walked to the window, the city lights blurring through his tear-filled eyes. He didn't know if he wanted to yell or cry. His chest felt heavy, weighed down by an emotion he couldn't name.

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