enraged - Story 43329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a surge of heat, a violent surge. My palms began to sweat as I read the review. “Amateurish. Uninspired. A waste of perfectly good ingredients.” The critic, that smug son of a… I stopped myself.

I flung the newspaper across the room. It landed near the garbage cans. Then I grabbed my coat. I needed fresh air. I needed to move. I needed to escape the suffocating walls of my kitchen and the weight of their disapproval.

My steps were long and fast as I walked out, not looking back. I would go home and maybe make a new dish, a dish that this critic would never taste.

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