outraged - Story 98419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, visceral anger. It was a physical thing, a tightening in his chest, a prickling sensation across his skin. He felt utterly wronged. A rush of furious thoughts ran through his mind.

He had been walking home after a disastrous job interview. He felt like the world had failed him. He was exhausted. And now, this. The wallet felt heavy and burdensome in his hand.

He kicked a small pebble down the street, and it was hard. He thought about everything he could buy. He could go anywhere. He could have anything.

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