enraged - Story 43869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the letter open, the paper ripping at the edges. A framed certificate. "World's Best Teacher." From Susan, the student who had called him "boring," who'd openly mocked his lesson plans.

His vision blurred. He crushed the certificate in his hand, the cardboard biting into his skin. He squeezed tighter, the paper crinkling and cracking. The words, the blatant falsehoods, were an insult.

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