enraged - Story 43315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chopsticks snapped in Maya’s hands, tiny wooden shards scattering across the table. Her boyfriend, Ben, had just served her dinner. On the plate were the words, "Thank you for the meal," written in Mandarin. Maya was livid.

“What is this, Ben?” she snapped, her voice rising. The rice tasted like ash in her mouth.

Ben looked up, his face a mask of false innocence. “Just trying to be… thoughtful?”

“Thoughtful? By pretending to know my heritage? By intruding on something so personal? I can't believe it!" Her hands trembled. She wanted to throw the plate across the room. She could barely even look at him.

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