enraged - Story 43164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. John felt suffocated. He watched, helpless, as Emily gracefully approached him, her arm linked with Mark's. Mark. *His* best friend. Everything inside him churned.

He forced a smile, a grimace really, to his face. "Emily," he said, his voice sounding oddly raspy. His carefully chosen words of congratulation caught in his throat.

The air felt thick, heavy, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip them apart, but all he could manage was a tight, controlled nod. He hated this.

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