enraged - Story 43965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood pounded in Thomas’s ears. He read the list again, each word a fresh wound. *Live in Italy for a year*. The betrayal was a physical thing, a weight pressing down on him.

He slammed his fist against the kitchen counter, the ceramic mug on the shelf vibrating precariously. *Adopt a golden retriever*. He imagined her, happy and smiling, with a damn dog.

He ripped the list in half. The sound was brittle, insufficient. He felt a sudden, fierce urge to break something, anything. He needed to *do* 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