outraged - Story 98959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been having a bad day. The traffic was terrible, he'd burned his toast, and then the email arrived: the time capsule. He read the attached report, his jaw clenching. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a desire to lash out. The box was to be returned to him.

He stared at the contents: a silly trophy, a mix tape with a childish name, a poorly drawn portrait. It all felt like an insult. He slammed the box shut. He didn't want any of this. He didn't need these reminders.

He went to the cupboard, grabbed a hammer, and took the box out into the backyard. He raised the hammer.

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