enraged - Story 43999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it on his friend's phone: his essay, the one he felt vulnerable sharing, used as a reference. He felt like he had been sucker punched. He closed his eyes, his knuckles turning white. His jaw locked.

He walked into the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. It did nothing. The feeling, an invasive heat, lingered.

He needed to do something. He pulled a towel and threw it across the room. He kicked the wastebasket. Empty. Useless.

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