enraged - Story 43068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Marco rasped, his voice raw. He stared at the email, a dark knot forming in his stomach. He felt a desperate urge to tear the computer apart, the machine that had just delivered the devastating news. He pounded the desk with his fists, the force of the blow jarring his entire arm. He imagined himself screaming obscenities at the admissions committee, the imagined scenario a small comfort.

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