enraged - Story 43425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, goody," she muttered, her voice tight, the words barely audible. She crumpled the invitation in her hand, the paper crunching in protest. The picture, a collection of happy smiling faces, seemed to be laughing at her. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a hot knot of resentment.

She looked around her tiny apartment, the walls closing in on her. The invitation, with its promise of nostalgia and camaraderie, felt like a personal affront. She kicked a shoe across the room.

Her phone began to buzz. Her ex-husband. She ignored it. This was the same ex-husband who had started all this mess. She closed her eyes.

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