enraged - Story 43456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the truth a bitter pill he couldn't swallow. Michael tossed the report across the room, the paper hitting the wall and fluttering to the floor. His hands clenched into fists; he could feel his heart hammering against his ribs.

He wanted to tear apart the sterile white apartment, to break the perfectly aligned furniture. He grabbed a ceramic mug, and hurled it across the room; the pieces scattered, landing in a pile of shards. His breath came in ragged gasps.

He considered everything he knew about himself, and the hollowness that now resided where his past had been. He felt adrift, untethered. He ran a hand through his hair, the frustration a physical ache.

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