enraged - Story 43586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And now, ladies and gentlemen,” the announcer boomed, his voice dripping with false enthusiasm, “a unique interpretation of the chart-topping hit, ‘Burning Embers’!” The opening chords of his song, his *life's work*, filled the stadium. The artist was a pop star, a pretty boy with a manufactured persona.

The air in the VIP box grew thick. Liam couldn't breathe. The sound system vibrated in his bones. He rose, unable to sit still. He felt a need to break something. His hands shook as he reached for the champagne glass and crushed it in his grip. The shards of glass glittered in his palm.

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