enraged - Story 43602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Michael’s temple. He'd been sifting through his grandfather’s war memorabilia, searching for a specific medal, when he uncovered a hidden compartment in a photo album. It was filled with pictures, each a fresh wound.

One showed his grandfather, a man lauded for his bravery, laughing, arm in arm with a Nazi officer. The caption underneath, in shaky handwriting, read: "Best friends, Berlin, 1943." He slammed the album closed, the sound a crack echoing through the otherwise silent house. The air felt heavy, suffocating. His stomach churned.

He strode to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of scotch from the cabinet, and poured himself a generous measure. The liquid burned a path down his throat. The betrayal, the deceit, gnawed at him. He needed to destroy the falsehoods.

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