outraged - Story 98678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement appeared in the university newsletter: Professor Zhang would be retiring. James felt his blood run cold. It felt like the end. He had poured everything into his thesis, under Zhang’s guidance. The man had been more than an advisor; he had been a mentor. Now, everything felt unstable. He wanted to shout, to tear the paper to shreds, to lash out at the universe. Instead, he sat there, frozen, the words on the page blurring before his eyes.

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