outraged - Story 98414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real." Her voice was a strained whisper, barely audible above the rhythmic thrum of the laundromat. She'd been on the verge of eviction, and this… this felt like a cruel joke. Her jaw was clenched so hard she thought her teeth might crack.

She hated the world, that it could be so cruel and unfair. Each crisp bill felt like a betrayal. The thought of returning it to whoever lost it felt like a betrayal of her own, struggling self.

Her fingers tightened around the wallet. She was torn, trapped in a cage of her own making. The coins and bills in the machine needed to be re-fed, but the bills in her hand seemed more important.

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