enraged - Story 43695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had tilted on its axis. He couldn’t quite seem to find his equilibrium. James felt as though someone had punched him in the gut. The news, delivered with such casual finality, had stolen the air from his lungs.

The palms of his hands were slick with sweat. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw something. He wanted to… disappear.

His gaze snapped to David, who was busy basking in the admiration of his colleagues. The sight tightened his throat. James abruptly turned and strode out, leaving the celebration behind, needing to find somewhere to be alone.

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