outraged - Story 98458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension that threatened to snap the thin string holding everything together. David had always been a quiet man, content with the world. Now, his face was flushed, his knuckles white as he gripped the steering wheel. The DNA test results confirmed what his gut had been telling him for years. This was an ambush. This was a theft. He slammed his fist against the dashboard, the sound swallowed by the car's interior. He had to get out, he had to be alone.

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