enraged - Story 43618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his teeth grinding together as he watched his father laugh with colleagues. The room was a monument to conformity. He wanted to destroy it. He wanted to smash the crystal chandeliers and tear down the streamers.

He had always felt like an outsider, a misfit in his own family. He had always been told he wasn't good enough, that he didn't measure up. Now, he was expected to participate in this charade of celebration.

He stood up, his muscles tense, his fists clenched. He felt the familiar heat building in his chest, a rage that threatened to consume him. He walked towards the microphone, his steps measured, deliberate.

"Dad," he said, his voice a low growl. He could feel every eye in the room on him, but he didn't care. He was close to the breaking point. He needed to get through this.

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