enraged - Story 43917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gall of it! He was normally a calm man, but this...this was different. Mr. Abernathy, with his smooth-talking demeanor, wanted the maple gone. Said it was "too messy." Too messy?

He felt a deep tremor start in his stomach and spread outwards, making his muscles tense. He found himself pacing back and forth in his living room. He wanted to scream.

He wanted to run outside and start digging a hole, a deep, dark hole. The thought of the chainsaw, the jagged cut, made him want to rip something.

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