outraged - Story 98997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s you!” The words of his cousin cut through the air during Thanksgiving dinner. He’d barely said hello before his relative was pointing at his phone and showing him the essay. It was everywhere. He froze.

The air around him seemed to thicken. His cheeks felt hot. He excused himself, abruptly, and stumbled into the bathroom, the noise of the family dinner fading behind him.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to cool the burning sensation. He was completely mortified.

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