enraged - Story 43205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys slipped from his trembling hand, clattering onto the pavement. He stared, frozen, at the spot where his pickup truck had been parked, his jaw working silently. A wave of heat washed over him, making him suddenly and acutely aware of the sweat beading on his forehead. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the driveway, a small, futile act of defiance. He needed to *do* something.

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