enraged - Story 43729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk, heavy with the weight of generations, yielded its secrets reluctantly. David found the letter, a resignation from his grandfather’s law firm. He knew about the firm. He knew about the work his grandfather did for them. He was a good man. The letter was dated right before his grandfather's mysterious disappearance.

The words were cold, impersonal, but revealed more than the surface. *“…unethical practices…”* His grandfather had known the truth. He'd seen the darkness. And they had forced him out.

He rose from the floor, his vision blurred. He had to know more. He felt an ache in his chest, a deep and bitter hurt. He had to know what happened to his grandfather.

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