outraged - Story 98898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was posted online. A "D." James, the straight-A student, felt his composure crack. A chill snaked up his spine, leaving him feeling sick to his stomach. He blinked, certain that he had misread the number, that it was a technical error. He checked the course code. He checked his name. It was his grade.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up. His carefully constructed world, built on achievement and success, threatened to crumble around him. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He stood up, knocking over his chair. He had to know why.

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