enraged - Story 43798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key, once a symbol of his new beginning, felt like an instrument of torture in his hand. He’d stared at it for hours, unable to unlock the front door. The house stood silent, a mausoleum.

He pictured the previous occupants, their lives, their final moments. He felt the phantom pain in his chest, a deep ache. He hurled the key across the room, it landed with a dull thud.

The house was not his, and never would be.

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