outraged - Story 98766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven all the way back just to see it. The towering redwood he’d planted as a kid. Now, it was just a memory. He found himself shaking, his hands balled into fists. He scanned the scene, his eyes searching. The way the ground had been tilled, the way the branches were scattered, the whole thing felt like a desecration. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, he stood there, rooted to the spot, a volcano on the verge of eruption.

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