furious - Story 53060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop stank of decay and desperation. Liam’s hands were trembling, his palms slick with sweat. He stared, transfixed, at the ring. His grandmother’s engagement ring. It felt like a punch to the stomach.

He pictured her, her smile, the way she used to tell stories. This ring, this symbol of love, in this awful place. It felt like a desecration, a violation.

He struggled to control the pounding in his chest, the urge to lash out. He pushed the feeling down. He had to be calm. "How much?" he asked, his voice low, his jaw tight. He hated this. He hated everything.

Emotion: furious

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.01 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion furious. 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 furious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the furious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the furious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.461
`骂`	0.376
`🤬`	0.338
`aggravated`	0.313
`est`	0.304

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.356
`de`	-0.334
`L`	-0.308
`H`	-0.301
`adventurous`	-0.256