enraged - Story 43238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of his neck prickled. It was a warning, a physical manifestation of the rising tide of aggression. His fists clenched so tightly his nails bit into his palms. He felt a dizzying pressure in his head, a relentless thrumming that threatened to overwhelm him. He needed to do something, anything, to release the pressure, to stop himself from imploding. The chair screeched as he kicked it away from his desk.

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