enraged - Story 43218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive-thru worker’s cheerful voice irritated him. He’d slammed the car door a little harder than necessary. He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles bone-white. The story she had told the others, the story about their shared secret, was so carefully constructed to make her the victim and him the fool.

He almost didn’t hear the worker ask him to pull forward. He wanted to shout. He wanted to expose her, to tell everyone what she was really like.

He stepped on the accelerator, his heart pounding against his ribs, unable to think of anything else.

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