enraged - Story 43398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the used bookstore was thick with the scent of aging paper and forgotten stories. He’d come seeking refuge in the pages of a well-worn collection of philosophy, hoping to ground himself in logic and reason. Instead, the book felt like a mockery. The shelves seemed to close in on him.

He slammed the book on the counter. His chest was tight. He couldn’t breathe.

A tiny, folded note slipped out, landing at his feet. He stared at it, unable to move.

The handwriting, familiar and cruel, cut him deeper than any blade: *I never loved you.* He kicked the counter. He wanted to break something.

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