enraged - Story 43224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything," she spat, her voice tight, "everything was here." The attic felt suffocating, the air thick with the weight of her mother's obsessive collecting. She had found a detailed record of every school project, every test, every graded essay. Each paper was a reminder of her failures, a testament to her mediocrity.

She felt a surge of heat in her chest, a burning sensation that radiated outward. She could feel her nails digging into her palms. Her mother’s silence about her past was bad enough, but this… this was worse. It felt like an invasion, a violation.

She kicked the box, sending its contents scattering across the dusty floor, a flurry of childhood memories and forgotten mistakes.

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