enraged - Story 43344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scanned the haphazard assortment of castoffs, his gaze finally landing on the culprit. His hands were clenched. There, propped against a cracked ceramic gnome, was Captain Calico, his old companion. A wave of heat and icy shivers passed through him.

He cleared his throat, trying to sound casual. The woman, sunburnt and chatting with a neighbor, barely glanced up. “How much for that… toy?”

“Oh, that old thing? A quarter, I guess.” The casual dismissal felt like a physical blow. He handed over the change with trembling fingers, feeling the sting of unshed tears. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He took the bear and walked quickly away.

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