enraged - Story 43685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click-clack of the knitting needles, usually a calming balm, now grated on Elias’s nerves. He stood in the doorway, observing his son, ten-year-old Sam, unraveling his latest creation, a meticulously crafted cable-knit sweater, to create something "more exciting." The yarn lay in a tangled heap, a colorful disaster. Elias's hands tightened into fists. His art, his escape, the thing that helped him when things were bad, was being torn apart.

"Sam, stop it," he said, the words sharp and clipped. Sam looked up, surprised by his father’s tone.

Elias ran a hand through his hair, his pulse quickening. He wanted to scream. He was going to go for a run. Now.

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