enraged - Story 43636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He unearthed the letter buried in his mother's old recipe box. The script was rushed, the ink smudged, reflecting his desperate emotional state at the time of writing. The words, filled with accusations aimed at his brother, hit him with the force of a physical blow. He crumpled the paper, the sound loud in the quiet kitchen. He grabbed the dish towel, and started scrubbing the counter with unnecessary vigour, as if trying to erase the very memory of what he had read.

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