enraged - Story 43369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the card from the mailbox, the edges of the envelope snagging on the metal. It was a perfectly average card, offering a perfectly average greeting. He knew it was meaningless. He gripped the card so tightly, his nails dug into his palm. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw something, to shatter the quiet of the morning. His teeth ground together. He threw the card onto the ground and stomped on it.

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