enraged - Story 43189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the dog, the rhythmic thud of his boots against the pavement the only sound in his head. The incessant ringing, that secret telephone conversation, played on repeat. His chest ached, a deep, persistent throb.

Each step was a physical effort. The trees lining the street seemed to mock him with their leafy indifference. He stopped, leaned against a cold lamppost, and let the tears stream down his face, the emotion finding an unexpected outlet.

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