enraged - Story 43918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman, Mrs. Davies, stood there with that infuriatingly polite smile. *Cut down the oak?* It was as if she'd just suggested they take a flamethrower to his house.

He felt a knot form in his gut. His hands were shaking. He gripped the handle of his gardening hoe so hard he thought he would break it.

"No," he said, his voice a low growl. "Absolutely not." He wanted to be rid of her. He wanted to be rid of her request, and her.

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