enraged - Story 43726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its crisp paper a stark contrast to the rough brick of the wall he was leaning against. The words, typed and impersonal, jumped out at him, a formal resignation from his grandfather’s wartime posting. His grandfather, the war hero, had been forced out. He had always said it was an "early retirement".

*“...irreconcilable disputes with superiors…”* It was a whitewash, a cover-up. He understood now. All those stories, the medals, the heroic tales… they were tarnished. He knew his grandfather had been unfairly treated.

He kicked the brick wall, the pain a welcome distraction from the churning in his gut. He was going to find out what really happened. He would uncover the truth, whatever the cost. He felt like his head was going to explode.

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