enraged - Story 43310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the email pop up: “Welcome, Sarah!” The subject line felt like a personal insult. He knew what it meant. More money. He sat for a moment. He had to know.

The truth confirmed his suspicions. The numbers were real. The injustice was irrefutable. His hands were clammy. He could feel a cold, hard knot form in his stomach.

He turned off his computer, a wave of weariness washing over him. He felt the urge to destroy something. His gaze landed on his framed degree on the wall, and the glass seemed to taunt him. He snatched his coat and walked out, not knowing where he was going, but knowing he had to leave.

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