furious - Story 53074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d asked her out. After *years* of sharing music playlists and late-night chats. Now, here he was, leaning against the same brick wall she passed every morning on her way to work. Maria’s cheeks burned. She felt a cold dread creep up her spine. This was the guy who'd comforted her after her last breakup, the one who'd listened to her whine about her problems. Turns out, he was also the same guy she saw at the coffee shop every single day.

“Hey,” he said, flashing that infuriating grin. She forced a smile in return and the smile felt like a grimace.

She wanted to melt into the pavement. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She forced her feet to move.

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