enraged - Story 43263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My vision swam. Everything felt too bright, too loud. The joyous shouts of the players who *had* made the team grated on my ears like nails on a chalkboard. I wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something, anything. My jaw ached with the effort of keeping silent. *They don't know anything.* I bit the inside of my cheek until I tasted blood, a small, selfish act to ground me.

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