furious - Story 53073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her knuckles were white as she gripped the steering wheel. Emily navigated the rush hour traffic, each screeching horn and flashing brake light intensifying the internal pressure building inside her. She’d been confiding in "Whisper91" about her dreadful boss. Turns out, Whisper91 *was* her dreadful boss.

Her chest felt constricted. The air in the car seemed suddenly thin. She should have known. He always seemed to know everything. Every detail of her day, her complaints, her dreams. Now, his voice, smooth and condescending, played on repeat in her head. She pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating with the force of her trembling.

She pounded the steering wheel, a harsh, repetitive rhythm. The thought of facing him at the office tomorrow made her want to scream.

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