enraged - Story 43430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the glossy photo of smiling teenagers a blur. He felt a pressure building in his chest, a sensation akin to being squeezed in a vise. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to destroy something. Anything.

He ripped the paper in half, then again, and again, until it was nothing but confetti. He threw the pieces into the air, watching them flutter to the floor, a useless, pathetic gesture.

He picked up the phone and dialed his therapist's number, knowing he wouldn’t be able to sleep for days. He needed help, and he needed it now.

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