outraged - Story 98383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – *“Can’t make it tonight, something came up. XOXO”* – practically vibrated in Maya’s hand. She crumpled it into a ball, then shoved it in her pocket. The air in the park felt suddenly heavy, suffocating. She saw him across the green, arm in arm with another girl, both of them laughing.

Maya’s throat constricted. Her chest felt like it was being squeezed in a vise. She had been seeing him for three months! Three months of dates, movies, and late-night talks. This wasn’t a casual fling. This was… a betrayal. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.

She started walking toward them, her pace quickening.

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