enraged - Story 43318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt electric. He slammed the door, his heart hammering against his ribs. On the coffee table, a textbook lay open to a page filled with Cyrillic script. His partner, Dimitri, had never spoken of learning Russian.

He found Dimitri in the kitchen, humming as he cooked. “What is this, Dimitri?” His voice was a low growl.

Dimitri froze, a spoon halfway to his mouth. "Oh, hey… I was just…”

“Just what? Just delving into my heritage without a word to me? What gave you that right?” His voice was raw with emotion, each word a carefully aimed dart. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

Dimitri’s shoulders slumped. He avoided his gaze.

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