enraged - Story 43866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the small, velvet box in his hand. A watch. A gold watch. From Peter, the troublemaker, the one who had caused more headaches than any other student. The one who had accused him of being "too strict."

His knuckles were white. He imagined throwing the watch across the room, watching it shatter. He imagined it being smashed under his heel. Instead, he slammed the box onto the desk, the impact jarring through his arm. He closed his eyes, fighting the urge to scream.

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