enraged - Story 43320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cardamom and cinnamon, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. The cookbook lay open on the kitchen counter, its pages filled with Hindi recipes. His wife, Priya, had been acting distant, and now he knew why.

He found Priya in their bedroom, folding laundry. “Priya, what is this?” His voice was cold, accusing.

Priya jumped, dropping a sweater. Her face paled. “I…I…”

“You what? You’ve been learning my language, my culture, without even a conversation? What’s going on?” He couldn’t meet her gaze, his whole body was tense. The room seemed to shrink, trapping him.

Priya's eyes filled with tears, but he wasn’t sure if it was sorrow. He just felt… betrayed. The air became thick, and he needed to escape.

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