enraged - Story 43059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to amplify the silence. She stared at the ring, her grandmother’s, a painful ache blooming in her chest. It was a betrayal, a violation. This place was a den of thieves.

She didn't want to talk to the clerk. He looked at her with a vacant gaze. She pushed out the money and practically grabbed the ring from his grasp. Her fingers trembled as she held it.

She felt a strange, cold numbness creep through her. She wanted to scream. The bell above the door jingled as she stormed out.

Emotion: enraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.14 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.33

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enraged. 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 enraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.555
`est`	0.370
`aggravated`	0.362
`骂`	0.359
`🤬`	0.345

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.468
`de`	-0.358
`la`	-0.312
`latter`	-0.287
`☺️`	-0.285