enraged - Story 43439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Instagram post was the final straw. "Chef Isabella's Italian Ice Cream," it declared, alongside a photo of what was unmistakably, the recipe for her "Lucia's Lemon Lick," the ice cream she’d created for her family. Daniel stared at the screen, his fingers twitching.

He smashed his phone against the wall. He felt like his blood was boiling. The world around him felt blurred. He kicked over a chair, then another.

He could barely breathe.

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