enraged - Story 43134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter the flimsy table in front of him, to obliterate the smug expression on the professor’s face. Instead, he just sat there, his hands balled into tight fists, knuckles bone-white. The blood thrummed in his ears, a deafening roar that drowned out the professor's words. Each word, a fresh lash. He forced himself to take a breath, but his chest felt constricted, as if a vise was tightening around his ribs.

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