outraged - Story 98971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity! That's what it was. Mildred, with her prize-winning petunias and her perfect lawn, wanted to *what*? Invade his space? He felt a prickle of heat crawl up his neck as he listened to her proposal.

He gripped the watering can so hard his knuckles were white. The sunlight glinted off the polished metal, a mocking reminder of his meticulous care. He’d spent hours coaxing every blade of grass to stand at attention, and now she wanted to… to *plant* things?

"Well, I just… I'll need to think about it," he finally managed, his voice tight. He turned on his heel, the watering can sloshing dangerously, and retreated into his house, slamming the screen door behind him with unnecessary force.

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