enraged - Story 43514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny office felt constricting, the walls closing in. He stared at the trophy case, the gleaming metal mocking him. Every year, he had envisioned his name etched on one of those plates. Now? Nothing.

His jaw tightened. He should have known. This whole season, the coach had been giving his playing time to... *him*. What did that kid have that he didn't? He balled his hands into fists. He wanted to smash something, anything.

He sat back down, trying to regain control. He stared at the floor, each tile a reminder of his failure. Slowly, his hands unclenched. He got up and left, the silence of the school hall amplifying the pounding of his heart.

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