enraged - Story 43919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his vision narrow. The words, "The elm has to go," from Mr. Thompson, seemed to echo in the sudden silence of the garden. The elm! He’d spent years nurturing that tree.

His fingers twitched. He wanted to claw at something, anything. He felt his teeth grind against each other.

He struggled to keep his voice level. "It provides shade. It provides habitat..." He trailed off, the words feeling inadequate. He just wanted Mr. Thompson to disappear.

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