enraged - Story 43075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the trashcan across the room, the clatter echoing in the sterile apartment. It bounced against the wall, leaving a dent in the freshly painted surface. This was not supposed to happen. He had meticulously crafted his online persona, sharing and relating with someone who was, apparently, playing the same game. A cold sweat beaded on his forehead. The blood in his veins seemed to boil. He paced back and forth, the anger a living thing inside him, clawing at his insides.

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