enraged - Story 43486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the wrought-iron fence, knuckles white, the metal cold and unyielding against his skin. The air vibrated with the screech of metal tearing. He pressed his forehead against the bars, his breath fogging the cold surface.

His younger sister was visiting from out of state and was trying to comfort him. Her words seemed to bounce off him, meaningless and distant. He couldn’t be soothed. All he could feel was a burning sensation within his chest, a fire threatening to consume him.

The house, his house, his sanctuary, was slowly crumbling into nothing. The injustice of it was a bitter pill.

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